“Technological innovations in spinal surgery”: the meeting, held in the Irccs Neuromed in Pozzilli (Is), was dedicated to this theme in the presence of numerous national experts. The meeting, organized by Gualtiero Innocenzi, head of the Institute’s Neurosurgery Unit 1, explored all the innovative aspects related to interventional and diagnostic spinal neurosurgery. From nanotechnologies to robotics, from diagnostic imaging to minimally invasive techniques.
Technological innovations – reads a note – lead the spinal surgery sector to increasingly make use of diagnostic advances and instruments that assist the surgeon in every phase of the operation, from precision diagnosis to design, from robotic assistance in the operating room. the use of new materials to maximize patient recovery. All in the name of less and less invasiveness which translates into greater safety for the patient and, of course, the need for adequate training, especially for young people.
“It is an extremely wide field – says Gualtiero Innocenzi – because we are talking about materials already used in the operating room but applied to new techniques, as well as new materials and innovative procedures. On these aspects it is necessary to reflect to evaluate what is really useful and also to avoid certain excesses that do not have the patient’s well-being as their goal. New technologies are very useful for diagnosis, to choose the indication and finally to support the neurosurgeon in the operating room. But it must be an integrated process, which is why for years at Neuromed we have had a biomedical engineer in the operating room, who helps us in the management of very sophisticated machines “.
“The new technologies we are using in spinal surgery – says Franco Servadei of Humanitas in Milan, as well as the first Italian to preside over the World Federation of the Society of Neurosurgery – are in part already used for the brain and, in part, for other surgeries. What they bring is certainly greater ease in learning this profession, as well as obviously greater safety for the patient. The aim is to help the neurosurgeon, a figure who, however, must remain fundamentally linked to his basic training, which will then be followed by the innovative updating. This is why we came here to Pozzilli with pleasure: here there is not only the ability to operate but also to do basic research, therefore the possibility of acting at 360 degrees “.
“Today the neurosurgical operating theaters – says Fabio Sebastiano, engineer, director of research and operational director of Neuromed – are highly integrated entities, in which diagnostic imaging techniques and innovations on the operating level go side by side. This is the nature of our Institute: to do research, to introduce the latest technologies to support operators, fundamental in terms of treatment and follow-up of neurosurgical pathologies “.
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