Adult spinal deformity (ASD) surgery is not your straightforward L4–5 decompressions where everyone’s home by dinner. ASD patients arrive older, frailer, more medically complex, and often carrying enough comorbidities to make an anesthesiologist quietly reconsider their career choices.
What is the mortality risk of these operations?
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