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38 DEVICES & IMPLANTS 1,200+ ATTENDEES FROM ACROSS THE NATION REGISTER BY SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 AND SAVE! KEYNOTES BY 24 TH ANNUAL MEETING: THE BUSINESS & OPERATIONS OF ASCS OCTOBER 26-28, 2017 SWISSOTEL | CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 190 SPEAKERS, INCLUDING 137+ SPEAKERS DIRECTLY FROM SURGERY CENTERS Register here at www.beckersasc.com/annual- ambulatory-surgery-centers-conference/ Call 800-417-2035 or email Jessica Cole at jcole@beckershealthcare.com or Scott Becker at sbecker@beckershealthcare.com The Best Business-Focused, Strategic Discussions in the ASC Industry with a Special AEU Credit Track BECKER'S ASC REVIEW Bill Walton, NBA Legend and Basketball Analyst Kirk Herbstreit, ESPN's "College GameDay" Analyst and Reporter Alexa von Tobel, Founder and CEO of Learnvest.com, Author of Financially Fearless Andrew Hayek, CEO of OptumHealth, CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates Do Overlapping Neurosurgeries Have Worse Outcomes? Not Always, According to New Study: 5 Key Notes By Laura Dyrda A new Phoenix-based study examines whether overlapping neurosurgeries have different outcomes than non-overlapping procedures; the findings were surprising, according to an ar- ticle posted in Medscape. e study included 14,872 neurosurgical procedures and found the outcomes weren't worse among surgeons who performed overlapping procedures; in several cases, the outcomes were actually better. Mi- chael Bohl, MD, a neurosurgery resident with Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix presented the findings at the 2017 American As- sociation of Neurological Surgeons annual meeting. Dr. Bohl and his colleagues examined data in a retrospective study for cases performed between July 2013 and June 2016. The study authors found: 1. Patients who underwent overlapping surgeries reported significant benefit in outcomes measures including the length of stay, return to the operating room and disposition status. 2. e procedure length was the only measured outcome with signif- icant differences; the overlapping cases were longer, according to the report, and more senior residents staffed them. 3. e study authors also examined patients undergoing aneurysm clipping as part of a separate prospective trial. e overlapping pa- tients had improved aneurysm obliteration rates at hospital discharge. 4. A further sub analysis of deep brain stimulation showed similar outcomes between the overlapping and non-overlapping groups in electrode error, brain penetrations and general outcomes measures. 5. The data suggested the overlapping cases were not less complex than non-overlapping cases. The study was done at a specialized center, which means the results may be different in a more gener- alized setting. n