Cleveland Hospital Primary Care Hospital issued the following announcement on Dec. 23.
Patients needing brain surgery at The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough are now benefitting from a state-of-art cortical stimulator thanks to the kind generosity of the local community.
South Tees Hospitals Charity donated £23,646 for the C2 Explore, which can be used to map the functioning of the brain, especially the areas controlling the movement and speech.
The leading-edge equipment is helpful in performing safer surgery, ensuring preservation of functional areas of the brain and also prevents the need for patients to be referred to other centres.
It is mostly used for cancerous tumours and gives surgeons the ability to stimulate the brain and the cavity of tumour to show its functional parts during the surgery helping in avoiding damage to these areas.
When used on a patient who is awake, surgeons are able to check whether the area they are operating on controls the speech.
It can also be used when patients are under anaesthesia to test the functioning of muscles and identify if that is an area of the brain that controls movements.
“We are delighted that we now have this state-of-the-art piece of equipment here at James Cook,” said consultant neurosurgeon Anil Varma.
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Source: Cleveland Hospital Primary Care Hospital
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