BGS Global Hospitals, the multi-specialty tertiary care hospital is opening their Micro Neurosurgery Training Institute at the hospital premises. It will also organize the first ever hands-on Micro Neurovascular Surgery Workshop.

This is first ever hands on workshop in South India. The Micro-neurosurgical Training Institute at BGS Global Hospitals will conduct these training courses frequently for the benefit of budding neurosurgeons.

Course Conveners, Rosemarie Frick, a renowned trainer and head of Microneuro Surgery Training Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland and Dr N K Venkataramana, chief neurosurgeon and vice-chairman of BGS Global Hospitals will be conducting this training workshop on the advanced microsurgical technique which is being attended by many neurosurgeons from all over India.

Micro neurosurgery is technically a skilled specialty. Micro vascular anastomosis (surgical joining of brain blood vessels) inside the brain demands skill, dexterity and experience. Neurosurgeons need to be trained in this subspecialty to make themselves adept. Though formal neurosurgical training is available, specialized training like micro-vascular surgical technique is not a regular feature in the curriculum. Neurosurgeons in the past had to go abroad to acquire these specialized skills.

BGS Global Neuroscience Institute has established a state-of-the-art training centre to provide the training courses with required microscopes, micro instruments. From now on, such specialized training facility will be available in Bangalore itself.

The course is offered to qualified neurosurgeons who have a special interest in neurovascular surgery. This course encompasses hands on training in handling microscope, micro instruments and delicate blood vessels of the brain in addition to the specialized suturing techniques. After this training, neurosurgeons will be able to perform brain bypass surgery for stroke and brain attack patients effectively.

Micro Neurovascular training makes neurosurgeons effective and skilled in performing brain bypass, aneurysm surgery, arterial and venous anastomosis and carotid endarterectomy in patients with stroke, brain haemorrhage, Moya Moya disease and other cerebral ischemic states to re-irrigate the brain.

According to Frick, the international faculty, Microneurosurgical Laboratory is an integral part of any advanced neurosurgical training center. Every neurosurgeon should undergo such training before undertaking critical brain procedures. This will enable them to apply their skills in treating many brain diseases effectively.

Dr N K Venkataramana stated, "Stroke affects the blood vessels of brain. These blood vessels vary from 2 to 7mm in diameter and are hidden in the depths of brain. Surgery on these tiny vessels need special techniques, sophisticated instruments and operating microscopes. We use very thin suture materials which are difficult to visualize with naked eyes. This needs operating microscopes with magnification up to 20 times to handle and suture these blood vessels. Frick has experience in regularly conducting these courses for the last 20 years and established a world renowned training programme at Zurich, Switzerland."