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Neurosurgery is surgery of the nervous system, which includes the brain, spinal column, meninges, nerves and pituitary gland. Conditions treated with neurosurgery include: spinal cord trauma, head trauma or trauma to the peripheral nerves; intracerebral, interdepartmental, and intracellular haemorrhages; meningitis and other central nervous system infections, tumours, spinal disc herniation, cervical or lumbar spinal stenosis, hydrocephalus, cranial/peripheral nerve pain, advanced Parkinson's disease, vascular malformations, and certain types of chronic pain disorders, among others. Neurosurgery manages neurological conditions which may be traumatic, neoplastic, infective, congenital or degenerative conditions.

Neurosurgical procedures include microsurgery, minimally invasive endoscopic surgery, endovascular surgery, conventional surgery which often uses image guidance technologies, ventricular-peritoneal shunt insertion, surgery of the peripheral nervous system, spine surgery such as discectomy, and surgery for chronic pain and pain management. Peri-operative care is a critical part of neurosurgery, and specialists in this area are mindful of pain following brain surgery, and other issues which affect recovery time, lengthen hospital stays and increase the risk of complications.

Neurosurgery works closely with teams in the medical neurosciences and neurology.

Neurosurgery Jobs

Neurosurgeons perform neurosurgical operations and provide peri-operative care of their patients. They help to manage acute neurosurgical conditions, including emergency and elective conditions, providing specialist surgical services across emergency and critical care departments, outpatient clinics and elective surgeries, in both public and private hospitals. Conditions may be the result of trauma and injury, acquired or congenital. Neurosurgeons often specialise in an area of neurosurgery. They perform operations and procedures which may be minimally invasive or invasive, including endovascular coiling, aneurysm clipping, craniotomy, brain tumour excision, shunt procedures, among many others. Neurologists have extensive training and expertise and are frequently contacted by other specialists for consultation. They provide patient care independently and in multi-disciplinary teams, collaborating with other surgeons, such as maxillofacial and plastic surgeons or ENT surgeons, as well as with neurologists, neuropathologists, neuro-oncologists, neuro-radiologists, anaesthetists, and nursing and support staff. To become a Neurosurgeon, doctors complete foundation and core training, and can apply for specialist training in Neurosurgery at ST1 or ST2 level, which takes approximately 8 years to complete and leads to entry onto the GMC specialty register. Specialist surgeons are responsible for providing clinical oversight and leadership, training of registrars and junior medical staff, and contributions to research and development.

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Registrars (Neurosurgery) are registered doctors who have completed their medical degree, foundation and core training. They can apply for specialty registrar positions, or positions at ST3+ level, and broaden and refine their scope of practice and gain experience, skills and competency in their chosen area of medicine. Registrars are very important members of the integrated and multi-disciplinary health care team. They have increasing responsibility for patient care, oversee and support junior doctors and staff, participate in professional development activities and continue to receive important guidance, training, and support from senior staff. Registrars who are undertaking posts in Neurosurgery work under Neurosurgeons and develop procedural skills, surgical techniques, and clinical expertise in providing medical care, including surgical and non-surgical management, of patients with conditions relating to their surgical specialty.

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