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The Neurosurgery Department provides treatment to patients requiring neurosurgery due to central nervous system pathology. The department is a nationally recognized leader in reputation and experience in all neurosurgical fields include benign and malignant tumors of the brain and spine, base of skull surgery, vascular diseases and microsurgery, hydrocephalus pediatric neurosurgery, and traumatic injuries, degenerative diseases and tumors of the cervical thoracic and lumbar spine and the sacrum as well as treatment of head injuries both through surgery and in its sophisticated modern neuro-intensive care unit.
The department has 32 beds, including 11 neuro-intensive care beds; it treats some 4500 patients a year and performs some 1200 surgical procedures annually. Furthermore, because the Rambam Healthcare Campus is the primary health service provider to the IDF in the North, the department has acquired extensive experience in treating battle injuries.
The Neurosurgery Department at the Rambam Healthcare Campus is equipped with the most state of the art surgical and monitoring equipment and its team is experienced in the most advanced surgical techniques. The department is a pioneer in using FVIIa treatment to control bleeding in head injuries.
In addition to their clinical work, the department is involved in several clinical studies in the field of brain tumors and head injury and the department's physicians are involved in clinical and basic research in the fields of immunotherapy, the molecular basis of head injury, robotics and evoked potentials and neurophysiology.
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