Neurosurgery

Innovation and the Feeling of Aspiration Iconic symbolism is either a descriptive, illustrative or verbally spoken comment that represents one or more things. It’s the background that upholds this person or object. The firm structure that stands tall. Icons come in forms of emotions to actions in seconds without indications to the person observing or the person showing it. The small things can mean more when placed upon a bigger meaning, stethoscopes, commonly used by doctors and surgeons.…

In theory, surgery should work. Yet, doctors have doubts. Valery Spiridinov, the world’s first head transplant volunteer, suffers from a degenerative disease known as Werdnig Hoffman. The incurable illness is characterized by the wasting away of muscle tissue, so the thirty year-old has placed high hopes in Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero’s proposed head transplant procedure. While, in theory, every part of the surgery should work, many health professionals question that Valery’s…

Encephalocele Johni L. Cochran University of Cincinnati An encephaloceles is a type of neural tube defect. It is characterized by a herniation of the brain and meninges through a structural weakness in the bony structures of the skull (Tirumandas et al, 2013). There are four classifications of encephaloceles: frontoethmoidal, basal, occipital, and cranial vault. Classifications are based on the type of defect and its location on the skull. Nasal or frontoethmoidal…

relatively new to psychiatry, it has long been used in cognitive neuroscience to describe rearrangements (mostly functional) organization neural network, developing in the training underlying memory (E.Kendel, 1980; B.I.Kotlyar, 1986), and neurology and neurosurgery (V.V.Semchenko, 1994; GN Kryzhanovsky, 2001; E.I.Gusev, P.R.Kamchatnov, 2004) - to describe the processes of recovery (at least partial) of certain brain functions after the organic CNS damage (as a result of stroke, traumatic brain…

For many aspiring physicians, the path to becoming a surgeon is a long and arduous one. Despite this, the career is very rewarding and lucrative. In total, an individual who is looking forward to becoming a surgeon. To begin with, an aspiring surgeon will have to complete undergraduate school at any four year university. A bachelor's degree or equivalent is required. In addition to this, one must also achieve a respectable score on the MCAT to be deemed as competitive for an M.D. program or a…

A concussion is a injury that effects the way that the brain works. It is commonly believed when you get a concussion you blackout, so some concussions go undetected because their was no loss of consciousness. Most concussions are not severe so the side effects go away with time and rest. Concussions are a minor type of brain trauma, but multiple concussions can lead to very serious mental problems. (Mayo Clinic) Concussions are caused by either a blow to the head or violent shaking of the…

Critical care is a component of acute care, and it aims to treat patients who require high or constant levels of monitoring and support. These patients are often in life threatening positions, and are cared for in Critical Care Units (CCUs). Patients who enter critical care can be split into two groups, planned and unplanned admissions. A planned admission may be a patient undergoing an intricate elective surgery who requires one to one monitoring peri-operatively. Unplanned admissions can be…

is now 12 years old and her latest accomplishment was winning a wheelchair contest. All the donations that have been raised through Children’s Miracle Network Hospital has helped Delaney receive treatments and consultations with specialists in neurosurgery, orthopedics, urology and more. Children's Miracle Network mission is to provide the best pediatric health service to all children so they can live a childhood where they have access to healthcare and be provided treatment despite the cost.…

person as well as a Puritan, he valued modesty and assiduousness, and encouraged others to learn. These traits are best exemplified in the cases of Dr. Keith Black, a nationally published and well-awarded African-American man who specializes in neurosurgery…

II.2.B. Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) Despite of the advantages of propofol use in neurosurgery such as reduce of CMRO2 and ICP, increase of cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP), and antiemetic effect,9,22-25 adverse events like shivering, high blood pressure, and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are not uncommon.26 The effects and outcomes of several combinations of opioids and propofol infusions have been compared during neuorsurgery with different results. Gerlach et al, compared…