In Hyderabad today there was the 1st International Intra-Operative ‘Neuro-Monitoring’ (IONM) Conference held at Yashoda hospital.
It’s LIVE workshop coverage in Hyderabad, which was inaugurated today with more than 200 Neuro experts from all over the country and across the globe, who strongly participated.
The Participants:
International Neuro Surgery experts Prof Dr. Vedran Deletis from Croatia, Prof Dr. K. Park from South Korea along with Dr. Sandip Chatterjee from Kolkata, Yashoda Hospitals Director Dr. Pavan Gorukanti, Senior Neuro Surgeons from Yashoda Hospitals Dr. Anand Balasubrahmaniam, Dr. B. J. Rajesh, Dr. Venugopal, Dr. Ravi Suman Reddy, Dr. Srinivas Botla & Neuro-anesthesiologist Dr. Nitin Manohar participated in the inaugural lamp lightening ceremony of 1st international IONM conference with live surgery workshop.
Patient’s Care:
Speaking on the occasion Prof Dr. Vedran Deletis; Croatia said “We should not harm the patient in our attempts to relieve the patient from illness.
Intra-operative neuro-physiological monitoring provides an example in medicine and surgery of improvements accomplished specifically by reducing failures, and thus, improving performance.
This technology is a boon to Neuro surgery and this innovation makes Neuro surgeries more safe, effective and efficient and helps patients.
“Some Brain surgeries are considered too complex as some of the tumors are located very near the functional areas in brain, which are responsible for specific functions like speech, vision, movement, sensation, hearing, swallowing. So, while removing these tumors or lesions there is a risk of damaging functional circuits. The deficits can cause impairment of any of the following functions.
The lack of sensation, weakness in movement, speech, vision, hearing, swallowing difficulty, facial weakness needs important attention. The need to preserve these essentials was also addressed.
These post-operative deficits to patients which can occur during surgery can impair the quality of life.
Complex Surgery
Function preservation is more essential in Neuro Surgery. Intra-operative neuro monitoring (IONM) along with image guidance has added to safety and precision while performing complex surgeries. It is now possible to perform these complex surgeries once deemed impossible due to these advancements.” Said Dr. Anand Balasubrahmaniam, Senior Neuro Surgeon, Yashoda Hospitals.
“Yashoda Hospitals has a dedicated team of neurosurgeons, neuro anesthesiologists and neuro technicians doing such complex cases with these technologies of intra-operative neuromonitoring and intra-op MRI.” Said Dr. Pavan Gorukanti, Director, Yashoda Hospitals.
Medical Science with Technology Support:
Dr. B. J. Rajesh; Senior Neuro Surgeon –Yashoda Hospitals said “In today’s era, with recent advancements in technology we can achieve maximal safe resection of complex tumors safely without causing any deficits to the patients. Earlier many tumors were considered to be complex and inoperable or even if operated carried a high risk of post-operative deficits.
Surgical technology has only one real purpose- to give best possible outcome by removing maximum tumor safely without effect on normal brain tissue.”
Organizing Secretary Dr. Nitin Manohar said: “Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring(IONM) involves monitoring integrity of neuronal pathways (cables or circuits which carry signals to and fro from the brain ). During surgery we keep on checking the function of these nerve circuits to preserve their integrity so that there is no damage to these functional circuits.”
Prof. Dr. K. Park; South Korea explained the advantages of IONM “It helps to prevent permanent functional disability as it gives us time to intervene even after changes in the monitoring responses are seen i.e. time where actions can be taken to prevent any permanent damage to neuronal circuits.
Intraopneuromonitoring, in simple terms means stimulating some circuits of the nervous tissue at one site and recording from another site to confirm integrity of nerve circuits and all this is done under anesthesia without patient being aware while surgeons perform surgery.”
3 Successful patients also participated in the event and shared their experiences about getting a New Lease of Life undergoing IONM surgeries at Yashoda Hospitals.
Khalid M Raza
