Introduction- What is Neurosurgery?
The field of medicine known as neurosurgery focuses on identifying and managing diseases of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and the vasculature that supports them. Although it is primarily a surgical field, radiography, critical care, and neurology are essential to understand.
Because it treats the body as a whole rather than focusing on individual parts, a neurosurgeon may do surgery on the brain, spine, or extremities at any time. Neurosurgeons treat patients of all ages for a variety of abnormalities, including congenital malformations in newborns, trauma, tumors, vascular anomalies, seizures, infections, and aging-related abnormalities like stroke, functional impairments, or degenerative diseases of the spine.
The neurosurgeon's main priority is the surgical methods used to treat their patients. The pioneers of neurosurgery are highly educated general surgeons with a focus on the neurological system. Many of them were also inventive scientists who utilized their knowledge of neurophysiology to become skilled medical professionals. Neurosurgery is still developing quickly. The propagation of novel concepts, surgical methods, and technical advancements are crucial components of neurosurgery.
Neurosurgeons now work in a range of settings, including university institutions, community hospitals, outpatient surgical centers, and large research sites. Neurosurgeons make up a limited community. There are little over 100 resident training programs and roughly 3,500 practicing board-certified neurosurgeons in the United States. There were 225 positions available in 110 neurosurgery residency training programs in 2018 that the Accreditation Council approved for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). All forms of neurosurgery are taught to neurosurgery residents.