Neurosurgery
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 23, 2019 by Dr. Charles (Sarel) Vorster · across every show →
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Dec 23, 2019
Vorster: The critical core of a four-hour neurosurgery takes thirty minutes
“Most of the surgery, if you say four hours, there's maybe a half an hour in the middle where the really the important things happen. So there's a lot of opening, and positioning, and all that, and at the end, there's a lot of closing again”
Dec 23, 2019 positive
Vorster: Neurosurgery must blend "eminence-based" historical experience with emerging data
“I like calling that eminence-based medicine rather than evidence-based. So eminence-based in my mind means if somebody with a lot of experience and skill did something, we can learn from that. We would be foolish to ignore that. On the other hand, we have to m…”
Dec 23, 2019 neutral
Vorster: Brain surgery cannot use double-blind placebo trials to develop algorithms
“However, data isn't always available, especially in brain surgery, because you can't do double-blinded tests, for example, where somebody gets a placebo and some don't, and so then you can develop Kind of an algorithm or a plan for your blood pressure medicati…”
Dec 23, 2019
Vorster: Preserving Quality of Life Must Precede Deploying Surgical Technology
“So for us, I think protection of function and maintaining quality of life is really the first thing. Before we unleash all the wonderful technology and machines and medications that we have on a person, we really want to just come back to basics and say, well,…”