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The Government Kilpauk Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has installed a Hybrid Neurosurgical Operating Theatre to facilitate high-end neurosurgical procedures, and endovascular neurointerventions.
A property merchandise said the infirmary had performed endovascular coiling for patients with analyzable conditions successful the brain.
“This Hybrid Neurosurgical OT astatine KMCH is 1 of its benignant successful the authorities assemblage successful the country. It is some for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. A full of 7 patients (three for therapeutic and 4 for diagnostic) were treated for assorted conditions including aneurysm, tumour and stroke. Usually, these procedures are done by opening the skull. Patients volition person to beryllium successful infirmary for respective weeks and the betterment play is long. This OT has made minimally invasive procedures possible, and the betterment play is shorter. In fact, CT scans tin beryllium done connected the table, M. Kavitha, dean of KMCH, said.
These procedures would different person been done by opening the skull, accessing the deeper areas and placing ample metallic clips permanently successful the brain. In minimally invasive procedures, determination is nary request to unfastened the skull, nary handling of humor vessels, and facilitates speedy recovery, the merchandise added.
The procedures were performed with the assistance of neurologist Shakir Husain Hakim and the Stroke and Neuro-intervention Foundation (SNIF).
KMCH has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with SNIF to facilitate specified procedures and bid module and students of KMCH.
As a portion of Directorate of Medical Education and Research Diamond Jubilee celebrations, neurosurgical operations arsenic good arsenic a teaching store was organised astatine KMCH connected November 21 and 22.
Kodeeswaran M., head, Department of Neurosurgery, KMCH; M. Radha, head, Department of Neurology, KMCH; and Goutham S. P., faculty, SNIF, were present.
