Accomplishments:
- The 25 neurosurgeons and 3 physiatrists at BNA perform more than 7,500 surgeries every year, and see more than 40,000 patients.
- BNA welcomes as many as 300 foreign observers from other countries each year. They come to spend from a month to a year observing surgeries at Barrow. In one recent month, there were surgeons and researchers observing our physicians from Brazil, Switzerland, India, Korea, Australia, Portugal, Colombia, Mexico, Canada and the United Kingdom.
- The neurosurgeons at BNA direct the Neurosurgery Residency Program at St. Joseph’s Hospital. There are currently 28 residents and 5 fellows in the program.
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Facts:
- Barrow surgeons and scientists helped pioneer the hypothermic circulatory arrest, a surgery now used worldwide in treating complex aneurysms. This, along with new skull base approaches, allows neurosurgeons to repair blood vessels in the brain with minimal risk of hemorrhage.
- Barrow surgeons are developing new endovascular techniques that thread tiny catheters into brain vessels to correct problems too risky for traditional neurosurgery.
- Our surgeons developed new approaches to reach lesions in the difficult skull-base area of the brain. Because of these approaches, some lesions previously considered inoperable can now be removed.
- BNA surgeons helped develop the 3-D microscope for clinical and academic use in the neurosurgical suite.
- In 2002, BNA neurosurgeons first used a technique they developed to reattach a young man’s head to his spine using titanium screws.
- Barrow spine surgeons have helped develop surgical techniques and instrumentation to restore function to patients with major spinal disorders, such as congenital abnormalities, tumors and traumatic injuries.
- In 2003, BNA physicians became the first surgeons in the US to use a new technique to remove rare brain tumors from children.
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