Moderators:

Jay Grider, MD, PhD, MBA and Tim Lamer, MD

Topics and Faculty:

1. Evidence Ranking and Recommendation Development - Timothy Deer, MD
2. Update: Evidence Based Approach to Hemorrhagic Complications of Neurostimulation Procedures - Tim Lamer, MD
3. Update: Evidence Based Approach to Infectious Complications of Neurostimulation Procedures - Salim Hayek, MD, PhD
4. Update: Evidence Based Approach to Neurologic Injury Following Neurostimulation Procedures - Jonathan M. Hagedorn, MD
5. Update: New Issues Raised in the 2024 NACC - Jay Grider, DO, PhD, MBA

Background Articles:

• Deer TR, Russo M, Grider JS, Pope J, Hagedorn JM, Weisbein J, Abd-Elsayed A, Benyamin R, Raso LJ, Patel KV, Provenzano D, Kim PS, Amirdelfan K, Bolash R, Steegers M, Sullivan R, Verrills P, Carlson J, Kapural L, Diwan S, Barolat G, Pahapill PA, De Andres J, Raslan AM, Lopez JA, Leong MS, Attias MB, Teddy P, Green AL, Dario A, Piedimonte F, Chapman KB, Tomycz ND, FitzGerald J, Gatzinsky K, Varshney V, Gish B, Lindsey BL, Buvanendran A, Lamer TJ, Slavin KV, Levy RM. The Neurostimulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC): Recommendations on Best Practices for Cervical Neurostimulation. Neuromodulation. 2022 Jan;25(1):35-52. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2021.10.013. Erratum in: Neuromodulation. 2022 Apr;25(3):482. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2022.01.001. PMID: 35041587.
• Deer TR, Russo MA, Grider JS, Pope J, Rigoard P, Hagedorn JM, Naidu R, Patterson DG, Wilson D, Lubenow TR, Buvanendran A, Sheth SJ, Abdallah R, Knezevic NN, Schu S, Nijhuis H, Mehta P, Vallejo R, Shah JM, Harned ME, Jassal N, Gonzalez JM, Pittelkow TP, Patel S, Bojanic S, Chapman K, Strand N, Green AL, Pahapill P, Dario A, Piedimonte F, Levy RM. The Neurostimulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC): Recommendations for Surgical Technique for Spinal Cord Stimulation. Neuromodulation. 2022 Jan;25(1):1-34. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2021.10.015. PMID: 35041578.
• Deer TR, Russo MA, Sayed D, Pope JE, Grider JS, Hagedorn JM, Falowski SM, Al-Kaisy A, Slavin KV, Li S, Poree LR, Eldabe S, Meier K, Lamer TJ, Pilitsis JG, De Andrés J, Perruchoud C, Carayannopoulos AG, Moeschler SM, Hadanny A, Lee E, Varshney VP, Desai MJ, Pahapill P, Osborn J, Bojanic S, Antony A, Piedimonte F, Hayek SM, Levy RM. The Neurostimulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC)®: Recommendations for the Mitigation of Complications of Neurostimulation. Neuromodulation. 2024 Jun 13:S1094-7159(24)00075-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neurom.2024.04.004. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38878054.
• Dr Timothy Ray Deer, Marc Russo, FFPMANZCA, Jay S. Grider, DO, PhD, Dawood Sayed, MD, Tim J. Lamer, MD, David Dickerson, MD, Jonathan M. Hagedorn, MD, Petersen A. Erika, MD, Michael A. Fishman, MD, PhD, James FitzGerald, FRCS, PhD, Ganesan Baranidharan, MBBS, Dirk De Ridder, MD, PhD, Krishnan V. Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, Adnan Al-Kaisy, MB, ChB, Corey W. Hunter, MD, Eric Buchser, MD, Kenneth Chapman, MD, Chris Gilligan, MD, MBA, Salim M. Hayek, MD, PhD, Simon Thomson, MBBS, Natalie Strand, MD, Jessica Jameson, MD, Thomas T. Simopoulos, MD, MA, Ajax Yang, MD, Olivier De Coster, MD, FIPP, Fabian Cremaschi, Prof. Dr., Paul J. Christo, MD, MBA, Vishal Varshney, MD, Stana Bojanic, MB, BS, FRCS, Robert M. Levy, MD, PhD. The Neurostimulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC)®: Recommendations for Spinal Cord Stimulation Long-Term Outcome Optimization and Salvage Therapy. Neuromodulation. 2024 June 19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurom.2024.04.006