Abstract
Purpose of Study
Discecomy is a common operation peformed for back pain at our hospital. We analysed the theatre register looking at demographic and health data for our patients to shed more light on this cases
Description of Methods
Entries in the spinal unit theatre registers from 2000–2012 were reviewed, and all patients undergoing discectomy for disc herniation recorded analysed regarding demographics and epidemiology.
Summary Of Results
A total of 171 patients had operations in our theatres. Of these patients the large majority were females. The age distribution was 45 to 50 years. The lumbar spine was the commonest region operated, especially the lower lumbar spine. We had very low repeat operations from failed surgery or requiring herniation.
Conclusion
Surgical registers are an important tool in understanding pathology in the communities we serve. We can track the type of patients treated and then plan appropriate intervention programmes. It also helps to follow-up patients and correlate outcomes, and we can use this data to correlate practices nationally and internationally.
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