Schmidek and Sweet: Operative Neurosurgical Techniques

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Neurosurgery

Intraoperative Neurophysiology: A Tool to Prevent and/or Document Intraoperative Injury to the Nervous System

Over the past 25 years, intraoperative neurophysiology (ION) has established itself as a clinical discipline that uses neurophysiologic methods—especially developed or modified from existing methods of clinical neurophysiology—to detect and prevent intraoperatively induced neurologic injuries. Recent developments have solidified its…

March 6, 2024

Neurosurgery

Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Functional Tractography

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a noninvasive technique that makes it possible to assess the integrity and location of subcortical white matter tracts in vivo. Its importance is underscored by the developing understanding that neurologic outcomes are more dependent on the…

March 6, 2024

Neurosurgery

Surgical Navigation With Intraoperative Imaging: Special Operating Room Concepts

Acknowledgments I thank all friends from Boston (The MRT crew and SPL) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Colleagues in Kiel from Anesthesiology, Tec and OR Team. Introduction One of the most challenging developments in neurosurgery encompasses the interdisciplinary effort to…

March 6, 2024

Neurosurgery

Ensuring Patient Safety in Surgery: First Do No Harm and Applying a Systems-Engineering Approach

Primum non nocere —first do no harm. The Hippocratic statement epitomizes the importance the medical community places on avoiding iatrogenic complications. In the process of providing care, patients, physicians, and the entire clinical team join to use all available medical…

March 6, 2024