SHIMLA, Oct 19: Latest advancements in neurosurgery have come as boon for patients undergoing critical brain and spine surgeries.
Principal Consultant Neurosurgeon Ashis Pathak, interacting with mediapersons recently, said with the latest advancements, uncontrolled epilepsy can be treated and can be of great help for those suffering from head injuries as in road accidents cases.
Mr Pathak said during head injuries and critical condition, patients should be rushed to nearby neurological clinic with one hours of stroke or accidents.
He said prompt management of head injuries with proper facilities can work wonders and give many injured better quality of life.
Spinal surgeries and instabilities could be stabilised immediately with surgery. He added that the latest imaging facilities of surgical procedures revolutionised the treatment for brain and spine lesions.
“A procedure, which was risky 20 years ago, has now become reasonably safe and precise,” he said.
Elaborating on the technology in neurosurgery, he said that anomalies of blood vessels and their bursting which produce blood clots are now treated with sophisticated radiological and surgical techniques.
“Children with deformities should be detected in the womb in 100 per cent of the cases with proper facilities. Advancements in neurosurgery have helped inborn abnormalities of skull and spine in children and various acquired pediatric neuro-surgical conditions be detected earlier,” he added.
He said that also tremendous advancement in the field of management of pain tremors, Parkinsonism, intractable migraine, stroke has enabled neurosurgeons to carry out procedures with utmost precisions yielding excellent results.
In case of 80 per cent of uncontrolled epilepsy, he said that there would either be remission or significant control of fits. He said that surgery would promote normal growth of brain and help the in overall functional development of the child socially and academically.
(UNI)
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