Strengths of Department:

Micro Cranial and spinal surgery, Endoscopic Neurosurgery. Stereotactic Neurosurgery. One of the oldest neurosurgery departments in the country with fully equipped operation theatre.

No. of Wards;  Two, Ward 25(male with 30 beds), Ward 24 (female with 15 beds)

Situation of Wards: 4^th floor, Main building, North block.

No. of operation theatres; one with three operating rooms(one main, one side and one emergency)

No. of working operation suits/ tables available for routine emergency work; Two

How many additional working operation suits/tables can be commissioned at short notice to tackle disaster or mass casualty; one

Capacity to expand existing indoor bed strength for additional patient load during disaster; Nine

Location of the space earmarked for creating additional bed to accommodate disaster victims;  Ward 25- 6, ward 24- 3.

MAN POWER

Teaching

Professor  : 1

Associate professor : 1

Lecturers : 3

Residents : 3

Non teaching

      1. Social worker: 1

      2. Nursing Staff :  32( ward 25- 2 sisters and

      3. Ward boy and servants : 20

Names, contact No. and Addresses of the all staff members

Students and staff facility

M Ch training in Neurosurgery ( degree course ) with intake capacity of one student per year of Mumbai University.

Departmental library

Cadaveric Microlabs

Independent Operation thearte with 3 operating rooms

Services provided: Microneurosurgery, Endoscopic neurosurgery, Stereotactic and minimally invasive neurosurgery. 24 hrs cranial and spinal trauma services critical care units. Surgeries are done at minimal or no cost for the patients from the class below the poverty line under Jeevandayee scheme funded by Govt of Maharashtra.

Equipments avaliable:

Operating microscopes                     2

Ultrasonic aspirator                          1

 C arm machine  with DSA facility  1

Neuroendoscope                                1

CT Compitable Stereotactic frame    1

Microneurosurgery and Transoral Surgery instrument Sets

Courses offered with intake capacity     M Ch Neurosurgery     intake capacity of 1 per year.

Academic activities, publication and presentations:

Weekly ward rounds

Journal clubs

Bi monthly BNA clinical meetings

Weekly seminars and case presentations

Guest lectures

conducted cadaveric hands on workshop for skull base and epilepsy surgery during ACNS January 06.

Dr Joy Howington

Publications

Cervical discectomy, osteophytectomy and PLL splitting using the operating microscope. A study of 100 cases.

Milestones journal

Cryptococcal granuloma of the sella presenting like a pituitary adenoma. A case report.

Internet journal of Neurosurgery

Spinal Exostosis as a cause of paraplegia in a case of hereditary multiple exostosis. A case report. Neurosurgery

Cervical actinomycosis causing compression of the cervical spinal cord. A case report

Spinal cord.

Cerebrospinal acanthameobic granuloma, A case report. Journal of Neurosurgery.

Deep vein thrombosis in head injury patients. Neurosciences Today.

Training Programs:

Neuroendoscopy training program

training program in Minimally access spinal surgery

Hands on cadaver dissection programs.

Future Plans

To start Functional neurosurgery

Surgery for movement disorders

Epilepsy suregry

Image guided Neurosurgery

Information to the patients

This department is one of the pioneers in neurosurgery in India. An entire generation of neurosurgeons have trained and worked in this centre from across the country.

This centre has pioneered in Endoscopic Neurosurgery in the country where a small hole is made in brain and a telescope is passed inside to treat the tumor. This does not require big cuts over the head. It can be done in less time and early recovery is possible.

Department has facilities for Stereotactic neurosurgery where tumors deeply located in brain can be accessed without damaging the normal surrounding brain.

Spinal and cranial Microneurosurgery  is being done regularly. Transoral surgery for the treatment of CV junction anomalies is being done. There are plans to start functional neurosurgery in near future, once the equipments are acquired.

There are two outpatient clinics per week (Monday and Thursday)  no. 17. The department has two OPDs per week for follow up patients (Tuesday and Wednesday).

The elective operation list is on all the six days of the week. and emergency neurosurgical services are available round the clock through out the week.