Spine Surgery Handbook 2026: A Clinical Textbook Covering Operative Anatomy, Construct Selection, and Decompression Techniques for Orthopaedic Fellows (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798182282918)

The patient is awake at 3 a.m. with bilateral leg weakness after a posterior lumbar fusion you performed eight hours ago - and every second you spend searching a thousand-page reference is a second the epidural hematoma is compressing the cauda equina.

Spine surgery's highest-stakes moments do not wait for the textbook to load.

This handbook gives the spine surgery fellow, resident, and early-career attending a decision-ready operative framework - built around the exact moments when the case turns, not the routine steps that always go according to plan.

Inside this book:

- The Operative Pivot Atlas - 50 indexed operative decision entries, each with a Decision Trigger, Commitment, Bailout Logic, and Pivot Anchor for instant case-side reference

- Approach-specific safe corridors - the anatomic boundaries that prevent vertebral artery injury, left common iliac vein tears, L5 root injury during S2AI placement, and presacral venous catastrophe before they happen

- The three-check level verification protocol - a structured intraoperative system that closes the gap that causes 47 percent of surveyed spine surgeons to have been involved in wrong-level surgery

- NOMS, SINS, and separation surgery - a clinically actionable framework for every metastatic spine presentation, from stabilization thresholds to SBRT sequencing

- PI-LL mismatch correction planning - from measurement to osteotomy selection to intraoperative fluoroscopic verification before the final set-screw is tightened

- Revision spine surgery principles - scar tissue navigation, UIV extension strategy, and the damage-control protocol for coagulopathy recognized mid-reconstruction

Written for spine surgery fellows, orthopaedic and neurosurgical residents, and early-career attending spine surgeons who operate on real patients in real operating rooms.

Add it to your cart and carry the decision framework you will reach for before every complex case.