Good morning, it's it's 7. We'll go ahead and kind of get the get the party started for all of you that all you East Coasters Or from where around the world that are here, and it's a 7 a.m. San Diego time and 3 in the morning or 2 in the morning or whatever your time. Thanks for being here the breakfast the breakfast sessions are always a Great way to start the day I'm Charlie branch. I'm going to moderate. I've sort of given assignments to all the team here, and then we're going to We'll have four speakers. I'll introduce them in a second. I'm going to give you some Some of the rules that I think most of you are already familiar with to receive CME credits You'll need to log on to the my double an s and self-report There's also a link to the course Evaluation since you signed up for the course you'll get a link so you can evaluate the course and If you're not on the my double an s and need some sort of credit you can you can get that Accordance with standards for commercial support and associated policies Speakers paper presenters are required to disclose all financial Relationships that there have with commercial interest these are also in the program But I'll let the speakers Disclose their their conflicts if you perceive that there's some Meaningful commercial bias, please report that and we'll continue to try to manage that Audio-taping videotaping photography is prohibited It's tempting to pull out your cell phone and take pictures of the slides Personally I don't mind the rules of the institution are you're not supposed to I would think I would prefer that if you'd like something connect with the speaker after the Presentation and ask them for a PowerPoint email or whatever Turn off silence all cell phones and pagers visit the exhibit hall and This year there will be live streaming of the afternoon sessions if you're interested So done done with the housekeeping let me introduce my speakers this session Watered in the wrong room. We're going to look at some new and evolving technologies related to or Applicable in lumbar disc surgery, and that's not just taking out a disc It's as you're going to find out as we get through the day. It's putting something back in And so we're going to go from outpatient MIS awake Sleep perioperative optimizing care what is currently known as er a s and Jean-pierre mobasser from the Goodman Campbell Clinic in Indianapolis is going to share some of his experience and protocols and things that you may want to consider for your inpatient and outpatient lumbar disc surgery or decompressions lute myelin from a to me Alan sorry from Barrow in Phoenix, Arizona is going to then sort of sort of remind us just What a great opportunity or option MIS tubular mass technology is for the lateral and far lateral discs for those of you that aren't doing that I think you're going to find this to be a very To be worth your worth your while Rick Fester is going to sort of look he's going to then we're going to go into the endoscopic He's going to share some of his early experience as an early adopter or trialist with endoscopic Discectomy there may be some of you in the room that are very familiar with that It hasn't really become normative in the states in America And so we're still we're still dabbling some of the European and other Asian colleagues have become quite experienced so we're we're trying to learn Mike Wang Will share his endoscopic fusion with or without robotic technology As an opportunity, so I think we're going to go we're going to go the spectrum and then if we have time I'll share a little presentation on the use of a video microscope and As an alternative to the conventional microscope for MIS lumbar disc technology So I hope it's a good sort of array of Topics and We'll try to sort of I've asked the guys to kind of keep it down in the 15 to 20 minute range and so we can have opportunity for questions and Thanks for being here

lumbar disc surgery

endoscopic discectomy

endoscopic fusion

video microscope

new technologies