If you were to scan the critiques of modern medicine offered by various thinkers, you would glean their despair over the declining societal consciousness. This concert of painful perspective is a pointer to the overall decline in social and medical ethics, neurosurgery not excluded. This piece is an attempt at keeping the gentle flame of neurosurgical ethics burning steady and bright, against t...

The University of Utah School of Medicine Graduate Medical Education Program in Neurosurgery complies with Section 504 of the 1973 Vocational Rehabilitation Act, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, in providing opportunities for qualified individuals with disabilities. At the same time, prospective candidates must be capable of meeting certain technical standards. The f...

How His Legacy Began Although not the fi rst neurosurgeon in Singapore, Dr Tham is acknowledged as the “father” of Singapore neurosurgery. Dr Tham was already a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at “C” Orthopaedic Unit, Singapore General Hospital (SGH), with a special interest in spinal surgery when Dr Tseng Yuen Lin, the fi rst fully trained neurosurgeon in Singapore, passed away. In 1962, he was...

A collaborative global working group of women neurosurgeons in multiple countries at different stages their neurosurgical careers undertook the task researching history European neurosurgery. While doing so, we happened upon many remarkable female who overcame great adversity, made tremendous contributions to society and institutional neurosurgery, displayed numerous talents beyond operating ro...

introduction: infective endocarditis is well known to produce neurologic complications from septic emboli, which mandates a multidisciplinary approach between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. however, literature is not clear as to the optimal interval length between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.presentation of cases: the first case involves a 60-year-old woman with significant past medical...

Excellence in clinical translation may be found in those studies that have had a particularly large impact in how neurosurgery is currently practiced. Although there are various ways to identify such studies, we used the number of times an article has been cited as an indicator of the impact that article has had in our field. Here, we highlight some of the findings from our study of 106 article...

The Integrated Remote Neurosurgery Sys-tem(IRNS) was developed as a test bed to determine how telerobotic capabilities can be safely exploited in the operating room environment. In this report, a microscope is mounted on the robot to provide a high quality bidirectional mentoring system. The mentor can move, focus, and zoom the microscope remotely. This paper will address the issues relating to...

The practice of neuroanesthesia is unique in that the target organ of both the surgeon and the anesthetist is one and the same. Thus, the surgical goals have a profound impact on the constraints that the anesthesiologist must work within. In order to appropriately anesthetize the patient for neurosurgery, an understanding of the interrelationships of neurophysiology, pathophysiology and pharmac...

Computer-assisted neurosurgery has become so successful that it is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from, quite simply, neurosurgery. This trend promises to accelerate over the next several decades, bringing considerable benefit to the patients we care for. From a pragmatic point of view, can we identify specific instances in which clinical practice has been altered by computer assistance? Du...

Aging process can be characterized as a spontaneous decrease of function in various organs with age. Muscle, as a big organ of human body, undergoes aging process presenting with loss of muscle mass, "sarcopenia". Recently, several working groups have tried to make consensus about sarcopenia for definition and diagnosis. Muscle mass is known to be closely related with bone, brain, fat, cardiova...