Odisha’s first awake mind surgical procedure efficiently carried out on younger boy at AIIMS Bhubaneswar

Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: AIIMS Bhubaneswar has efficiently performed an awake mind surgical procedure on a 14-year-old boy, who was affected by epileptic match attributable to a mind tumour.

With signs of seizures and speech issues, the affected person, a local of Bhadrak district, had introduced on the premier hospital a month again. Doctors recognized the mind tumour and determined to carry out the surgical procedure.

Awake mind surgical procedure, additionally referred to as awake craniotomy, is performed to deal with sure mind situations, particularly neurological points, together with some mind tumours or epileptic seizures. The surgical procedure is required solely when the tumour or the world of the mind the place seizures happen controls imaginative and prescient, motion or speech.

The first awake mind surgical procedure on the younger affected person within the State was carried out by a staff of surgeons led by Head of the Department of Neurosurgery Prof RN Sahu, anaesthesiologist Dr Natasha Mishra and neurophysiologist Dr Priyadarshini Mishra.

“The teenager has been suffering from epileptic fit with features of speech problem during the seizure episodes for last eight months. Awake craniotomy procedure is performed on the brain while the patient is awake and alert. Although such surgery has been conducted on adults in Odisha, this was for the first time a young patient underwent the procedure,” mentioned Prof Sahu.

Such procedures are sometimes tough to be completed in kids who is probably not able to deal with the psychological stress related to it. As the affected person stays awake in the course of the process that is still ache free, it includes a number of challenges for each the anaesthesiologist and the working surgeon.

The anaesthesiologist throughout your entire process ensured {that a} balanced quantity of anaesthesia approach is used in order that the affected person stays ache free, and is ready to preserve neuropsychological assessments and the airway.

“As the patient is very young, we had conducted a mock drill involving him before the actual surgery. He mustered courage and cooperated with us all along the procedure that took nearly two and a half hours. We asked him questions and monitored the activity in his brain as he responded. He was also allowed to talk on cell phone during the surgery to check speech. The patient has fully recovered,” Dr Sahu added.