Epidural Steroid Injection Prior to Spinal Surgery: A Step-Wise and Wise Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An epidural steroid injection (ESI) is used to treat a number of morbid central nervous system pathologies and is considered a reasonably safe procedure. This study aimed to determine the relative infection risk after spinal surgery by comparing outcomes in spinal surgery patients who received an ESI shortly prior to the surgery against those who did not receive an ESI shortly prior to the surgery.

Methods

The present study is a retrospective cohort study using a multi-institutional healthcare database, TriNetX, to collect data on patients who received spinal surgery with and without having had ESIs six months before surgery. Two cohorts were generated: Cohort 1 included patients who had received an ESI in the six months prior to spinal surgery, and cohort 2 inclu

SUBMITTER: Kozak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10569744 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature