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Volume 8, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Neurol Neurophysiol
ISSN: 2155-9562 JNN, an open access journal Neurology 2017
March 27-29, 2017
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Impact of neuronavigation on neurosurgical practice
Neurological surgery has always been a highly technological profession. Neuronavigation is this surgical technology
that continues to transform neurosurgical interventions into safer and less-invasive procedures. Among other medical
technologies, neuronavigation has pushed the limits of conventional neurosurgery, helping in re-defining new and more
precise approaches. Its power lies in the ability to virtually combine imaging data to extract comprehensive information that
is used to strategize and guide the neurosurgical interventions. What was once a simple localization tool is today a surgical
reality tool and an essential piece of technology in the operating theaters (OT). It is used as an information center for providing
surgical crew with the right information when it is needed the most. During the surgery, an interactive real-time display can
demonstrate the otherwise hidden information that has been generated frommulti-modal volumetric images. The information
defined during the preoperative plan of the surgical approach can be deployed in the surgical field, enabling selection of the
appropriate scalp incision, minimizing the extent of the craniotomy, and thus decreasing considerably the potential risks
to the patient. Also during surgery, the navigation accuracy decreases because of the brainshift and tissue removal. The use
of intraoperative imaging will redress for these inaccuracies by refreshing the imaging data used by the neuronavigation.
Furthermore, intraoperative imaging is allowing the assessment of surgery's objectives (i.e. amount of tumor removal), within
the OT itself, while the patient still on the surgical table and before skin closure. Understanding the association between
anatomy and imaging for surgical purposes remains a challenge and neuronavigation, when appropriately used, can bridge the
gap between them and assist in performing surgery more dexterously and safely. Available new technologies bring a promise
of a better and safer tomorrow for neurosurgical interventions. Having these great technological tools should indeed help us
in delivering great care
Biography
Lahbib Soualmi is an expert in Image Guided Neurosurgical Navigation. He has been, from 1998 until 2008, Director of Neuronavigation Unit, in Montreal Neurological
Institute and Hospital, McGill University Health Center (MUHC) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada. He holds an MS and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. In 2008, he relocated to the National Neuroscience Institute at
King Fahad Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he is currently, Consultant of Image Guided Neurosurical Navigation and the Head of Neuronavigation Unit and
Intraoperative Surgical Imaging. Furthermore, he has been a Consultant Faculty in the Biomedical Technology Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
from 2008 to 2013.
Lahbib Soualmi
King Fahad Medical City, Saudi Arabia
Lahbib Soualmi, J Neurol Neurophysiol 2017, 8:2 (Suppl)