How much do you know about spinal vascular malformation hybrid surgery

Composite surgery, also known as hybrid surgery, is the integration of interventional and surgical procedures to treat both cerebral and spinal vascular disease using 2 approaches simultaneously. The compound surgery platform has greatly improved the effectiveness and safety of cerebral and spinal vascular treatment, and can cure spinal vascular malformations that were previously incurable. However, its hardware facilities are very expensive and require special surgical suites. Currently, large medical centers also tend to have only one room. Xuanwu Hospital has introduced a compound surgery room for joint use by neurosurgery and vascular surgery since 2012. At present, compound surgery has accumulated rich experience in neurosurgery for spinal cord vascular malformation, cerebral vascular malformation, cerebral aneurysm, and revascularization of the arch. Li Guilin, Department of Neurosurgery, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University At present, compound surgery for spinal cord vascular malformation is usually performed by Director Zhang Hongqi or Professor Ling Feng. However, we can only use the compound operating room one day a week, and compound surgery is often very complex and delicate, with long operating time, and only one compound surgery can be completed in one day. And currently there are many patients who need to have compound surgery and the queue is long. In order to treat as many cases as possible, for some patients who are in a better financial situation and wish to have their surgery as soon as possible, we arrange for them to be operated on in the United Family Hospital’s composite surgery suite. The waiting time for surgery is less than a week. They are a foreign-owned hospital and are not reimbursable, and the per-item fees are extremely expensive. After much negotiation and hard work, the current hospitalization and treatment fees for patients with spinal vascular malformations are packaged and are generally$110,000 to$150,000 depending on the complexity. We would like to apologize to patients with spinal cord vascular malformation who need compound surgery treatment. The waiting time for compound surgery is really long, and we can only try our best not to waste the opportunity to use the compound surgery room every week, but it is true that we still cannot treat most of the patients in time.