The use of microscopes in modern surgery allows surgeries to be performed with less damage to surrounding tissues; This means that it can be done while better preserving the quality of life of patients. Endoscopic surgery, another minimally invasive surgery method, can also be used in brain surgeries today. In this way, microsurgery can be performed even more effectively, and one can look behind the corners, so to speak. Endoscopic surgery is sometimes used in brain surgeries performed through the nose, or in surgeries performed within the ventricles, which are fluid-filled spaces within the brain; Sometimes it can be used as an aid to microsurgery operations performed by opening the skull bone.
Sometimes the surgeons who performed the surgery can help patients who have had back surgery in recent years but did not benefit from it; An application sometimes recommended by algologists who deal with pain is called epiduroscopy. It means entering the spinal canal with a needle inserted from the coccyx, looking there through the needle, and if there are some adhesions due to the surgery, trying to open these adhesions with some drugs or laser.
It is one of the issues that our patients are rightfully curious about the most. One of them is how long the surgery will take. The amount of time the surgeon can respond to this will only be approximate, because surgery is a patient-specific procedure; In other words, how long it will actually take will be revealed more precisely during the surgery. Moreover, when the preparation of the patient in the operating room, putting him to sleep, waking him up, waiting and transfer times are added to this surgery time; The time between the patient leaving his room and returning to his room can sometimes be several hours longer than the actual surgery time. I would also like to remind you that since the patient was already asleep during the surgery and the anesthesiologist was waiting for him; This period does not pose a significant problem for the patient. Prolonging the duration of the surgery will, at best, pose a challenge to the surgeon and the operating team.
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