Bach Mai Hospital masters many advanced techniques in neurosurgery and spine surgery.

Scientific conferences are a place for academic exchange and open up many directions of applied research to serve patients. Advances in medicine are only truly valuable when they are transformed into effective treatment, enhanced prevention and improved quality of life for people.

Associate Professor, Dr. Dao Xuan Co, Party Secretary and Director of Bach Mai Hospital, said that as the first special-class general hospital in the country, specializing in high technology and providing comprehensive health care for all people, the hospital has now affirmed its position as the leading flag of the country's health sector.

Over the years, the hospital has made remarkable and comprehensive progress in all aspects, especially in the new era. Bach Mai always determines its vision to become a prestigious hospital in the region and the world , developing specialized spearheads.

Notably, in addition to the strengths of internal medicine and paraclinical specialties, in recent years, the hospital has also had remarkable development of surgical specialties, notably neurosurgery, orthopedic trauma and spine.

The Department of Neurosurgery was established in May 2015 and has always strived to examine, treat, and perform surgery on central nervous system diseases, especially brain tumors, aneurysms, cerebral vascular malformations, spinal diseases, traumatic brain injuries, etc.

The department has successfully performed emergency surgery for ruptured cerebral aneurysms - contributing to saving the lives of hundreds of patients in critical condition, being the first neurosurgery unit in the country to apply minimally invasive surgery in the treatment of cerebral aneurysms; closely coordinating multidisciplinary treatment, such as the treatment of high-grade cerebral arteriovenous malformations by combining embolization and surgery. Advanced techniques such as endoscopic surgery, complex skull base surgeries are routinely performed by doctors...

Up to now, the Department of Orthopedics and Spine has routinely implemented the following techniques: Surgery to treat injuries to the high cervical spine, surgery to correct kyphosis and scoliosis, artificial disc replacement, artificial vertebral body replacement, anterior hip replacement, knee replacement, knee-shoulder-ankle arthroscopy...

The Department is the first unit in Vietnam to apply the O.arm system in spinal surgery and has performed surgery on about 1,000 patients; applied the Mako Robot system in knee replacement surgery for more than 100 patients; in 2024, for the first time in Vietnam, direct endoscopic screw surgery of the dental beak will be performed...

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Ribbon cutting ceremony to inaugurate the Vaccine Consulting and Vaccination Unit of Bach Mai Institute of Tropical Medicine.

On this occasion, Bach Mai Hospital opened the Vaccine Consulting and Vaccination Unit of Bach Mai Institute of Tropical Medicine.

At the same time, the organization opened training programs for lower-level medical staff. That is, opening 11 technical transfer packages in 6 specialties: Cardiovascular, Digestive, Psychiatric, Nephrology, Musculoskeletal, Rehabilitation, Pediatrics for 146 doctors and nurses working at 45 medical facilities under the command of Bach Mai Hospital.

Opening of a training course on basic emergency resuscitation for 300 doctors and nurses from remote, border and particularly disadvantaged provinces sponsored by the Thien Tam Fund of VinGroup.

This will be an extremely valuable and important resource in improving the capacity of the northern region system and is especially important in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic at risk of returning.

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