Trials / Completed

CompletedNCT04927273

Availability of Spine Neuronavigation in Africa

Prevalence of Spine Surgery Navigation Techniques and Availability in Africa: A Cross-sectional Study

Status: Completed
Phase: —
Study type: Observational
Enrollment: 113 (actual)

Sponsor: Association of Future African Neurosurgeons, Yaounde, Cameroon · Academic / Other
Sex: All
Age: 18 Years
Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In this study, the availability of spine neuronavigation in Africa was evaluated. Access to surgical equipment is an important goal of global surgery and global neurosurgery. The study findings show that there are regional differences in access to spine neuronavigation techniques and highlight that the major barriers to increased prevalence are cost and lack of trained personnel.

Conditions

Spine Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Survey	Surveyed neurological and orthopedic surgeons

Timeline

Start date: 2021-01-24
Primary completion: 2021-02-23
Completion: 2021-03-30
First posted: 2021-06-15
Last updated: 2021-06-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Cameroon

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