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The neurosurgical curriculum: Which procedures are essential? [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 2020
Objective: Traditionally, neurosurgery is a competitive field. Throughout the years, the surgical armamentarium has been subject to change, e.g. due to the rise of indications for gamma knife, functional or endovascular surgery.
Pravesh S. Gadjradj   +2 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Pattern of Neurosurgical Procedures in Ethiopia: Experience from Two Major Neurosurgical Centres in Addis Ababa. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background: In Ethiopia, the number of practicing neurosurgeons is very few and the pattern of neurosurgical diseases and operations is not well known.This study was aimed to define the patterns of neurosurgical diseases and the operative procedures ...
Bekele, A.   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Mortality as an indicator of quality of neurosurgical care in England: a retrospective cohort study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objectives Postoperative mortality is a widely used quality indicator, but it may be unreliable when procedure numbers and/or mortality rates are low, due to insufficient statistical power.
David A Cromwell   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends and outcomes for non-elective neurosurgical procedures in Central Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The world currently faces the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic. Little is known about the effects of a pandemic on non-elective neurosurgical practices, which have continued under modified conditions to reduce the spread of ...
Kasik, Petr   +76 more
core   +4 more sources

Virtual Reality in Neurosurgery: Beyond Neurosurgical Planning

open access: yes, 2022
Background: While several publications have focused on the intuitive role of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in neurosurgical planning, the aim of this review was to explore other avenues, where these technologies have significant utility
Nicola Montemurro   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Suction tube with pressure regulation: technical note

open access: yesBrazilian Neurosurgery, 2012
We describe a new suction tube for microsurgical procedures which permit a precise control of the pressure of suction. The new device consists of a suction tube connected to a laterally placed sliding bar which progressively opens or closes a leak.
Sebastião Gusmão
doaj   +1 more source

Incidence and risk factors of neurosurgical site infections: results of a prospective multicenter cohort study on 6359 surgeries

open access: yes, 2018
Neurosurgical surgical site infections (SSI) are life-threatening complications, requiring medical treatment and additional surgeries and remain a substantial cause of morbidity.
Chiaffarino, Francesca   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

Neurosurgical activity during COVID-19 pandemic: an expert opinion from china, South Korea, Italy, United Stated of America, Colombia and United Kingdom

open access: yes, 2020
Background: More than a million and a half people are infected worldwide with more than 90.000 casualties. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is radically altering both socio-economic and health care scenarios.
You, Namkyu   +17 more
core   +2 more sources

Intraoperative hypothermia during vascular neurosurgical procedures

open access: yes, 2009
Increasing evidence in animal models and clinical trials for stroke, hypoxic encephalopathy for children, and traumatic brain injury have shown that mild hypothermia may attenuate ischemic damage and improve neurological outcome.
Robert H. Andres   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Preoperative Assessment of Adult Patients for Intracranial Surgery

open access: yesAnesthesiology Research and Practice, 2010
The preoperative assessment of the patient for neurosurgical and endovascular procedures involves the understanding of the neurological disease and its systemic presentation, and the requirements of the procedure.
Vanitha Sivanaser, Pirjo Manninen
doaj   +1 more source

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