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What Are Cottonoids Used For?
- February 3, 2020
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: Neurosurgery
No CommentsNeuro patties are a rayon sterile pledget used for hemostasis and soft tissue protection. They are x-ray detectable and have a locator string attached. They are soaked in saline prior to use. Neuro patties are not thrown away when soiled like larger type sponges. They are kept on the sterile field and discarded in a different location due to the fact that they must be accounted for at all times during and after the procedure. Counting Neuro patties after a procedure is a requirement and holds legal responsibility. The final count is recorded right away to prevent error and the person recording the count puts their initials by the numbers.
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Melinda Greathouse Stays Positive in the Face of Acoustic Neuroma
- January 17, 2020
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: Patient Stories
Melinda Greathouse, a sunny 36-year-old resident of Charleston, West Virginia, was fourteen weeks into recovery from quintuple bypass surgery following a widow-maker heart attack when her balance issues and tinnitus started to worsen, and she was sent for a hearing test. An MRI was ordered shortly after by her ENT doctor, and the results were shocking: she had a benign brain tumor. It was an Acoustic Neuroma; a noncancerous tumor on the eighth cranial nerve.
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Weil Cornell Skull Base Neurosurgery Course
- January 6, 2020
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: Shows and Workshops
The whir of a drill, the faint smell of formaldehyde, and a flurry of figures in scrubs; this was the scene at the 2019 Complex Surgical Approaches to the Skull Base hands-on Cadaver Workshop that took place at Weill Cornell from December 12th to 14th ( https://skullbaseneurosurgery.org/courses/skullbase/ ). Physicians, surgeons, residents, and fellows circled up to be instructed by the world-renowned Dr. Antonio Bernardo, MD via a combination of cadaver dissections and 3-D virtual reality environment in the state-of-the-art Neurosurgical Innovations and Training Center.
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29-year-old Lindsey Harder Raises Money for a Cure
- November 13, 2019
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: Patient Stories
Lindsey Harder is a 29-year-old Bostonian who was diagnosed with stage three anaplastic astrocytoma in the left side of her brain in June 2019. Anaplastic astrocytoma is a rare malignant brain tumor that develops from brain cells called astrocytes. Anaplastic astrocytoma accounts for about 1-2% of all brain tumors.
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10th Annual Boston Brain Tumor Walk
- October 23, 2019
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: ASC Cares Events
American Surgical Company was honored and delighted to be celebrating the 10th Annual Boston Brain Tumor Walk on October 20, 2019 in Boston. Our team walked a 5k to help raise funds to advance research and public policey and improve the availability of new and better treatments that fuel discovery to cure brain turmors!
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2019 Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Symposium
- October 5, 2019
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: Shows and Workshops
American Surgical was honored to support the Brigham and Women’s 2019 Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Symposium. The day’s event was designed to provide clinically relevant information to update providers on decision making, complication avoidance, and treatment strategies. Neurosurgeons discussed and debated on updates on technological advances in the field from the perspectives of neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology.
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Dr. Bulsara of UConn Neurosurgery Honors Dr. Takanori Fukushima
- August 16, 2019
- Posted by: American Surgical
- Category: Physician News
Dr. Ketan R. Bulsara, M.D., M.B.A. is the Chief of Neurosurgery and Director of Neurovascular and Endovascular Surgery at UConn Health. Dr. Bulsara Discusses the benefits of the Delicot ultra-thin neurosurgical pattie.