Faculty

• Dr. Tamajyoti Ghosh
• Dr. Sachui Rongmei

The Department of Neurosurgery started functioning since April 2013. Within a short period of time the Department has become specialized both in terms of infrastructure and manpower and is able to cater to almost all Neurosurgical diseases with world standard treatment that was so lacking in this part of the country.
Presently the Department is catering to diseases affecting the cranium, spine and the peripheral nervous system.

Location:

1. Departmental Office: Room no. 201, IInd floor OPD block.
2. Out Patient Department: Room no. 202 &203, IInd floor OPD block.
3. In Patient Ward: Situated below the ground floor of the main Hospital building in the right wing of the hospital.
4. Operation Theater: Neurosurgery OT for elective cases is located at the third floor OT block.
   

Infrastructure

1. The Neurosurgery OT is well equipped with State-of-the-Art instruments such as
• Operating microscopes - 2 Nos
• High speed electric and pneumatic drills; 1(One)each
• Neuroendoscope capable of performing both cranial and spinal procedures
• Ultrasonic aspirator for tumour removal
• Neuromonitoring for safe spinal and cranial procedures
• Dedicated C-arm for spinal procedures
• Neuronavigation for accurate localisation of lesions for both Cranial and Spinal Pathlogies
• Stereotactic biopsy

Services

OPD services:

• Days: All days except Monday, Wednesday and declared National holidays.
• Timings: 9:00 am till 4:00 pm

O.T days:

• Elective/booked surgeries: Mondays and Wednesdays
• Emergency surgeries: All emergency surgeries are conducted anytime of the day, that is 24X7 as and when the cases present in the emergency

Emergency Services:

It provides quality neurosurgical emergency and trauma care services 24x7.
In-patient Services:

• Neurosurgery ward was started from June 2013. Those patients requiring intensive care are managed in the Intensive Care Unit of the Hospital, under the aegis of the Anaesthesia Department and paediatric patients requiring intensive care are managed in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit under the aegis of the Paediatric department. Recent addition to Neurocritical care is the ICP monitoring.
• Operative services

Emergency Operative services provided:

• Craniotomies for traumatic brain injuries.
• Ventriculo-peritoneal shunts for hydrocephalus.
• External ventricular drainage.
• Spinal surgeries for traumatic spine injuries.

Elective services provided:

• Brain tumours- Meningiomas, Gliomas, pituitary adenomas, intraventricular tumours
• Skull base surgeries.
• Posterior fossa surgeries for acoustic schwannoma, medulloblastomas
• Vascular surgeries for intracranial aneurysms, Arteriovenous Malformations (AVM)
• Endoscopic surgeries- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy(ETV), Endoscopic biopsy and hematoma evacuation, Endoscopic pituitary surgery and other skull base procedures.
• Spinal surgeries
• Craniovertebral junction (CVJ) anomalies
• All spinal trauma- fractures, subluxation
• Degenerative spine diseases- cervical and lumbar discs, spinal canal stenosis
• Awake Cranitomy for tumour located in the Eloquent brain cortex
• Minimally invasive spinal surgery

Academic Activities

• Neuro Radiology meet every Tuesday from 8 AM to 9 AM where various Neurological cases are discussed in detail with various departments like Radiology, Pathology, General surgery, Paediatrics etc.
• Postgraduate classes on Neuro Anaesthesia for the Anaesthesia postgraduate students.
• Under graduate classes.

Vision of Department

• Patient care- to become a world-class neurosurgical set up where patients can get affordable care. This we are planning to achieve by developing state of the art infrastructure and developing subspecialties like vascular, functional, spine, paediatric neurosurgery.
• Human resource development- As Neurosurgical services are highly lacking in the Northeast we would like to train and attract competent neurosurgical care providers and also help interested persons to develop excellence in subspecialities.
• Research and development- Medical science is fast changing and is in a very exciting phase. We at Neurosurgery NEIGRIHMS would like to be part of the excitement by taking part in cutting edge research and also use our unique geological status to do extensive research into the diseases prevalent in the North-eastern region. We would like to develop innovative solutions and be the torchbearer in this part of the world.