Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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So how do you I mean so you're a patient going to see somebody who does this, you need to ask how many they've done.
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So those are your success rates.
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The other issue that often arises is what's your reoperation rate?
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In other words, how many people come back for an other surgery?
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Because that was the horror stories that everybody had about laminectomy, the open surgery for disc operations is that once the surgeon's gone in, if it doesn't work, it's a disaster and you could have four or five new other operations.
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I mean, what is the bounce back sort of failure rate or when you follow people up a year?
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hard to get placebo controlled trials and surgery.
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How do you rate then?
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I mean it's from and it's very hard to compare because we're not comparing apples with apples, but how does it rate compared to fusion if you try and compare the same sort of person with the same sort of problem having the different procedure?
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on an MRI scan.
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And who doesn't qualify?
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Because you're saying that you get complication rates as somebody who's really sick apart from their spinal problem?
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senses that the risks are higher in the neck.
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You don't want something to go wrong in the neck because the rest of the nervous system
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So is there anybody in Australia doing this?
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So the heretical question to ask any surgeon is how do you know you're better than doing nothing?
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Because some even chronic spinal problems do get better, maybe not completely better, but they do get better.
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doctor Don Hilton is associate professor of neurosurgery at the University of Texas San Antonio.
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Now it's fair to say that this kind of surgery has not taken Australia by storm.
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I asked Brisbane spinal surgeon Peter McCombe, who's an orthopedic surgeon by training, and former president of the Spine Society of Australia what he thought of Don Hilton's procedure and the extent of minimally invasive spinal surgery here.
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