Doesn't this mean neurosurgery is a dying field?

[postbacpremed87]

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Brain tumours and spine tumours by radiation specialists. Gamma knife operated by radiation specialists

Aneurysms and AVMs by interventional neuroradiologists (endovascular neurosurgery)

Select spine procedures by interventional neuroradiologists

Spine surgery being replaced by non surgical methods (injections, biochemical injections for osteogenesis, other non surgical methods)

Functional neurosurgery incorporating ultrasound for cerebral lesions



Doesn't this mean that neurosurgery will soon, for the most part, cease to exist?

No because some neurosurgeons elect to do fellowship training in one of the above fields. Neurosurgery as we know it may change with the advent of newer treatment modalities, but neurosurgery will not die.

 

[Mad Jack]

At the end of the day, we still need someone to do all those cranis and ventrics for all of our trauma and stroke patients.

 

[thedrjojo]

At the end of the day, we still need someone to do all those cranis and ventrics for all of our trauma and stroke patients.

Back in the day, a general surgeon would drill the burr hole...

But yeah, just like cardiac surgeons, the herd may thin, but they aren't going anywhere