Department of Neurosurgery
As clinically oriented investigators in the evolving field of Neurosurgery, our mission is to be at the forefront of state-of-the-art services and care, new tools, and techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions. We intend to become a centre of excellence in Neurosurgical and Polytrauma management. We provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services and our expertise lies in Brain and Spine care, with a particular focus in areas such as
- Adult and Pediatric Head Injury/Traumatic Brain Injury
- Spine Injuries
- Brain Tumors
- Spine tumors
- Surgical management of Life-threatening Stroke
- Cervical and Lumbar degenerative disease
Our services include:
- 24 hours trauma care
- Intracranial Pressure Monitoring for Severe Head Injury (First time in Central Travancore) and ICP based management of Head Injury as per International Guidelines
- Decompressive Craniectomy for Head injury and Advanced Life-threatening stroke cases
- Anterior cranial base repair for CSF rhinorrhea
- Treatment of Hydrocephalus with V-P Shunt
- Micro-neurosurgery for Brain and Spine tumors
- Navigation assisted minimally invasive Brain biopsy
- Minimally invasive and Endoscopic Spine surgery for disc diseases (First time in Central Travancore)
- Spinal stabilization for Traumatic and Degenerative Diseases
- Percutaneous Procedures for Back Pain
- Conservative Treatment of Neck and Back Pain
- Pedicle Screw Placement with Spinal Navigation in Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spine
We have a 15 bedded state of the art Neurosurgical ICU, dedicated operation theatre and full-fledged Emergency with the best equipment from all around the globe.
- Medtronic Stealth Station S8 – The most advanced and latest Neuro-navigation system for surgical management of complex brain tumors and for navigation assisted spine stabilization
- Integra CUSA Excel –The best Ultrasonic Aspirator available for surgical management of brain and spine tumors
- Medtronic Midas Rex MR-8 High speed drill system
- Leica PROvido surgical microscope
- Advanced Camino Fiber-optic Intracranial pressure(ICP) and temperature monitor
- Joimax Endoscopic Spine surgery system (Germany)
- Intra-operative monitoring with SSEP, MEP, EMG
- Philips Zenition 50 mobile C-arm with Unity workflow
- Micro and Macro neurosurgical instruments from Aesculap USA
- Getinge Maquet Meera(Sweden) Neurosurgical Operation Table
- Getinge Maquet Volista(Sweden) Surgical Light
- Philips Incisive 128 slice C.T
- Philips 3 Tesla Achiva M.R.I machine with Diffusion tensor imaging and fiber tractography
- Carestream DRX Compass A.I assisted portable Digital X-ray machine
- Fully equipped endovascular suites (G.E and Philips) for DSA and Endovascular procedures
- Maquet and Drager highest end ventilators in ICU
- Highest end anesthesia workstation and machines from Drager and G.E
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