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- Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), Hyderabad, has introduced an advanced Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) technique that cuts surgery time from the conventional 5-6 hours to 1-2 hours in select patients, performed under general anaesthesia instead of the traditional awake craniotomy.
- The technique was implemented by neurosurgery head Y. Vamsi Krishna after training at University College London, and NIMS has done over 200 DBS surgeries in two-and-a-half years.
- DBS treats movement disorders like Parkinson's disease, essential tremor and dystonia.
- NIMS has also begun offering MRI-guided radiofrequency ablation for medication-resistant tremors, provided free to eligible underprivileged patients through the Chief Minister's Relief Fund instead of the roughly ₹5 lakh private cost.
What to watch next
- How widely the shortened, general-anaesthesia DBS technique is extended beyond select patients
- Scale of MRI-guided radiofrequency ablation procedures funded through the Chief Minister's Relief Fund
- Whether other government hospitals adopt similar techniques following NIMS's training tie-up with University College London
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