Neurosurgery Department

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It was in the year 1976 that combined neurology and neurosurgery services started at SCTIMST as a single department having a total of 46 beds and 2 operation rooms. Dr. K.K Jain was Professor of Neurosurgery and Dr P.T Raman was the Professor of Neurology. Prof. George Mathew took over as Head of the Department in 1978 and he established it as an independent department. Though his main interest was spinal surgery, he can be credited with popularizing transsphenoidal pituitary surgery in India. Prof. D. Rout succeeded him in 1981.Under his stewardship, this department progressed to a center of excellence for cerebrovascular surgery and neurooncology. Neurosurgery department was shifted to newly constructed surgical block in 1984 having 44 beds including 12 bedded ICU with all modern facility and 3 well equipped operating rooms. Prof. R N Bhattacharya, who took over as head in 1998 and was instrumental in developing minimally invasive surgery. The department progressed gradually and the number of neurosurgical operations become almost doubled. Five additional beds were added to take the total number of beds to 49. A new well equipped state of art operating room was also commissioned in 2000. Surgery for epilepsy was started in 1995 and a comprehensive center for treatment of epilepsy was established later on. Dr Suresh Nair took over as head of the department in 2006. Under his guidance, surgery for skull base lesions got a momentum and the department has become a premier neurosurgical referral centre for cerebellopontine angle lesions especially for vestibular schwannomas. Functional and stereotactic neurosurgery was started with surgery for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders in 1998. Neuroendoscopy got a boost after the successful conduct of a workshop by Prof. Perneczky in 1999. The current thrust areas include spinal instrumentation, surgery for stroke and minimally invasive neurosurgery.

The Neurosurgery Department has been recognized as a center for excellence for training of the overseas residents and junior consultants. Our department is an accredited centre for skull base surgery training by the World Federation of Neurological surgery Considering the necessity of subspecialisation in neurosurgery, a post doctoral fellowship course in cerebrovascular surgery and skull base surgery has been started and subsequently such fellowship will be introduced for the other subspecialities also. Department is aiming to established a state of art cadaver dissection laboratory, in the future with facilities for training for residents.

Statistics

Started in 1976

Current Head of the Department: Prof. S Nair

Number of Consultants: 8

Number of residents : 12 (four per year)

Number of beds: 50

Intensive care unit: 13 bedded

Number of dedicated operation theatres: 4

No. of Surgeries done /yr(only elective, no trauma) : 1350

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