Doctors having relaxing music while performing surgeries would be a piece of new news. Ever heard of patients playing instruments and singi...
Doctors having relaxing music while performing surgeries would be a piece of new news. Ever heard of patients playing instruments and singing songs while undergoing surgeries? We never would have thought that there would be one such procedure, where patients are kept awake during the operation. It is called the 'Awake Brain Surgery' aka 'Awake Craniotomy'. Done to treat brain-related seizures and tumours.
A team of Neurosurgeons at the Narayana Multispeciality Hospital in Jaipur, have performed an Awake Brain Surgery on a 30-year-old man. The doctors successfully managed to remove a big tumour from the man's brain through this procedure.
The team could perform this very unique neuro-surgical procedure on the patient very accurately. The man was all awake and alert throughout the three-hour surgery. He was so operated as he was suffering from repeated Epileptic Seizures. Other hospitals denied him any treatment due to the complications of losing sense.
Hulasmal Jangir of Bikaner then approached the Narayana Hospital for the treatment. The team led by Senior Consultant, Dr KK Bansal, opted for this globally rare type of operation. This is done when a tumour is near the sensitive areas which control vision, speech and body movements.
In the case of Jangir, the tumour was near the Speech control area of the brain. Any slight mistake by the doctors could result in permanent speech damage to the patient. In the words of the Chief Doctor of the team, "In awake brain surgery, the patient’s response can be continuously monitored, which helps the surgeon to ascertain the exact spot without damaging other areas of the brain".
Talking about how the patient is kept awake doctor says, " In this patient’s case he was continuously asked to read, sing or recite the Hanuman Chalisa. His responses helped us perform the surgery safely and successfully as whenever we would touch a wrong spot, his speech would get inaudible".
Hospital Facility Director, Karthik says, "Surgery was done using high-end operating microscope which can magnify the brain area and special dyes were injected to mark a tumour. The patient was discharged within 72 hours and he is now leading a normal life".
A team of Neurosurgeons at the Narayana Multispeciality Hospital in Jaipur, have performed an Awake Brain Surgery on a 30-year-old man. The doctors successfully managed to remove a big tumour from the man's brain through this procedure.
The team could perform this very unique neuro-surgical procedure on the patient very accurately. The man was all awake and alert throughout the three-hour surgery. He was so operated as he was suffering from repeated Epileptic Seizures. Other hospitals denied him any treatment due to the complications of losing sense.
Hulasmal Jangir of Bikaner then approached the Narayana Hospital for the treatment. The team led by Senior Consultant, Dr KK Bansal, opted for this globally rare type of operation. This is done when a tumour is near the sensitive areas which control vision, speech and body movements.
In the case of Jangir, the tumour was near the Speech control area of the brain. Any slight mistake by the doctors could result in permanent speech damage to the patient. In the words of the Chief Doctor of the team, "In awake brain surgery, the patient’s response can be continuously monitored, which helps the surgeon to ascertain the exact spot without damaging other areas of the brain".
Talking about how the patient is kept awake doctor says, " In this patient’s case he was continuously asked to read, sing or recite the Hanuman Chalisa. His responses helped us perform the surgery safely and successfully as whenever we would touch a wrong spot, his speech would get inaudible".
Hospital Facility Director, Karthik says, "Surgery was done using high-end operating microscope which can magnify the brain area and special dyes were injected to mark a tumour. The patient was discharged within 72 hours and he is now leading a normal life".
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