Above: Staff using Brainlab’s “Curve” and “Airo” systems. greenslopesprivate.com.au | 3 Greenslopes Private Hospital now offers patients more accurate and safer treatment for conditions including aneurysms and brain tumours. Our new mobile imaging system Airo, created by German company Brainlab, is the most advanced intraoperative CT scanner available. It allows surgeons to perform scans while they are operating to assess their progress in real time, rather than completing surgery, waiting for the patient to wake up, and then sending them for a scan. Director of Neurosurgery Dr Bruce Hall said Greenslopes Private Hospital is the first unit in the Asia Pacific region to use the Airo in conjunction with new contrasting techniques. This involves injecting dye, which “lights up” the tumour and blood vessels. “Anything that carries blood or has an abnormal blood supply will take up the contrast and show up on a CT scan. It’s like painting the tumour or blood vessels,” said Dr Hall. The technology can be used at Greenslopes Private Hospital for cerebrovascular surgery including aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, intracranial tumours such as meningiomas and intracranial haemorrhages. “We are doing work that nobody else has done in Australia, and it’s simply enabling us to perform intracranial surgery more accurately and safely,” Dr Hall said. Greenslopes Private Hospital CEO Tim Daniel said, “this is a significant milestone for the hospital and shows our commitment to ensuring our patients have access to the latest and best treatments on offer.” The Airo is housed in a new dedicated neuro and spinal surgery theatre, which brings the total number of main operating theatres at Greenslopes Private Hospital to 18. Australian- first for brain surgery patients We are doing work that nobody else has done in Australia... Above: Dr Bruce Hall performs brain surgery using mobile imaging system “Airo” and “Curve” navigation system.
GPH News Summer 2016
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