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Overview

Volker K. H. Sonntag is affiliated with St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans various aspects of medicine, with a primary focus on surgery and related fields. The scientist's work has contributed to several subfields, including surgery, general health professions, pharmacology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their research interests cover a range of topics such as healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, cardiac, anesthesia and surgical outcomes, cervical and thoracic myelopathy, spine and intervertebral disc pathology, spinal hematomas and complications, and global health and surgery.

Volker K. H. Sonntag has published in multiple academic venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • World Neurosurgery
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
  • Neurosurgery
  • Surgical Neurology International

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Sonntag are:

  • Neurosurgery Resident Wellness and Recovery from Burnout: A 39-Year Single-Institution Experience, 2020, World Neurosurgery
  • Perioperative and swallowing outcomes in patients undergoing 4- and 5-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, 2021, Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
  • International Observerships in Global Neurosurgery: Overview and Analysis of a 40-Year Experience at Barrow Neurological Institute, 2025, Neurosurgery
  • Posterior resection of sacral osteosarcoma utilizing cement-infused chest tube interbody reconstruction and lumbopelvic fusion, 2021, Surgical Neurology International

Throughout their research, Sonntag has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Oliver Y. Tang
  • Katherine A Dunn
  • James S. Yoon
  • Francisco A. Ponce
  • Michael T. Lawton

Best Publications

  • Administration of Methylprednisolone for 24 or 48 Hours or Tirilazad Mesylate for 48 Hours in the Treatment of Acute Spinal Cord Injury: Results of the Third National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Randomized Controlled Trial

    Michael B. Bracken;Mary Jo Shepard;Theodore R. Holford;Linda Leo-Summers

  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Methylprednisolone or Naloxone in the Treatment of Acute Spinal-Cord Injury

    Mark K. Lyons;Michael D. Partington;Fredric B. Meyer;Gary M. Yarkony

  • Surgical management of spinal epidural hematoma: relationship between surgical timing and neurological outcome

    Michael T. Lawton;Randall W. Porter;Joseph E. Heiserman;Ronald Jacobowitz

  • Methylprednisolone or tirilazad mesylate administration after acute spinal cord injury: 1-year follow up: Results of the third National Acute Spinal Cord Injury randomized controlled trial

    Michael B. Bracken;Mary Jo Shepard;Theodore R. Holford;Linda Leo-Summers

  • The anatomical suitability of the C1–2 complex for transarticular screw fixation

    Christopher G. Paramore;Curtis A. Dickman;Volker K. H. Sonntag

  • Acute axis fractures. Analysis of management and outcome in 340 consecutive cases

    Karl A. Greene;Curtis A. Dickman;Frederick F. Marciano;Janine B. Drabier

  • Acute axis fractures: a review of 229 cases

    Mark N. Hadley;Curtis A. Dickman;Carol M. Browner;Volker K. H. Sonntag

  • Posterior C1-C2 transarticular screw fixation for atlantoaxial arthrodesis

    Curtis A. Dickman;Volker K.H. Sonntag

  • The interspinous method of posterior atlantoaxial arthrodesis

    Curtis A. Dickman;Volker K. H. Sonntag;Stephen M. Papadopoulos;Mark N. Hadley

  • Management of postoperative infections after spinal instrumentation

    Allan D. O. Levi;Curtis A. Dickman;Volker K. H. Sonntag

  • Pediatric spinal trauma: Review of 122 cases of spinal cord and vertebral column injuries

    Mark N. Hadley;Joseph M. Zabramski;Carol M. Browner;Harold Rekate

  • A prospective, randomized, controlled cervical fusion study using recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 with the CORNERSTONE-SR allograft ring and the ATLANTIS anterior cervical plate.

    David S. Baskin;Patrick Ryan;Volker Sonntag;Richard Westmark

  • Axis fractures: a comprehensive review of management and treatment in 107 cases.

    Mark N. Hadley;Carol Browner;Volker K.H. Sonntag

  • Injuries involving the transverse atlantal ligament: classification and treatment guidelines based upon experience with 39 injuries.

    Curtis A. Dickman;Karl A. Greene;Volker K.H. Sonntag

  • The infant whiplash-shake injury syndrome: a clinical and pathological study.

    Mark N. Hadley;Volker K. H. Sonntag;Harold L. Rekate;Alan Murphy

  • Biomechanical comparison of C1-C2 posterior fixations. Cable, graft, and screw combinations

    Sait Naderi;Neil R. Crawford;Geun Sung Song;Volker K.H. Sonntag

  • Cervical corpectomy: report of 185 cases and review of the literature.

    Mohammed A. Eleraky;Carlos Llanos;Volker K. H. Sonntag

  • Pediatric cervical spine injuries: report of 102 cases and review of the literature.

    Mohammed A. Eleraky;Nicholas Theodore;Mark Adams;Harold L. Rekate

  • Outcome Analysis in 654 Surgically Treated Lumbar Disc Herniations

    Conrad T. E. Pappas;Timothy Harrington;Volker K. H. Sonntag

  • A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Methylprednisolone or Naloxone in the Treatment of Acute Spinal-Cord Injury: Results of the Second National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study

    M. B. Bracken;M. J. Shepard;W. F. Collins;T. R. Holford

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert F. Spetzler
Robert F. Spetzler St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
Edward C. Benzel
Edward C. Benzel Cleveland Clinic
Theodore R. Holford
Theodore R. Holford Yale University
Lawrence F. Marshall
Lawrence F. Marshall University of California, San Diego
Christopher P. Ames
Christopher P. Ames University of California, San Francisco
Michael B. Bracken
Michael B. Bracken Yale University
Vijay K. Goel
Vijay K. Goel University of Toledo
Michael G. Fehlings
Michael G. Fehlings University of Toronto
Jeffrey N. Katz
Jeffrey N. Katz Brigham and Women's Hospital
Scott D. Boden
Scott D. Boden Emory University

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