Participation of Fraternidad-Muprespa in the 20th National Neuroraquis Congress

Fraternidad-Muprespa_ __HTMLTAG8___,Mutual Collaborator with Social Security No. 275, has participated in the 20 National Neuroraquis Congress, organized by the Spanish Society of Vertebral and Spinal Surgery and Sanicongress, which was held on March 11 and 12 at the La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, in in-person and virtual format.

TheDr. Eduardo Hevia Sierra Head of the Spine Unit of theHospital He also presented a presentation on "Treatment of unstable thoracolumbar fractures without neurological injury through percutaneous osteosynthesis" study carried out with patients operated on at the Fraternidad-Muprespa Hospital Havana.

HTMLTAG47___Likewise, he participated in three other presentations, one of them a poster presented by professionals from our hospital on "Centro-Medullary Syndrome (or Schneider) during cervical canal stenosis surgery without myelopathy, usefulness of Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IOM)", performed by la Dra. Clara María Nevado Jiménez, Neurophysiologist, Dr. Eduardo Hevia Sierra, Dr. Fernando Ordoñez Pascual of the Spine Traumatology Unit, Dra. Mª José Sánchez-Migallón Díaz, Neurologist, Dr. A. García García, el Dr. Raúl Zapata Rodrigo and Dr. Ismael Rahmuni de Pozo, residents of the Traumatology Service.

The poster summary explains how Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IOM) is increasingly used to early detect possible neurological injuries. And the objective of this poster was to present a case of Schneider's Central Medullary Syndrome (CMS) detected by IONM during cervical arthrodesis revision surgery via left contralateral anterior approach.