SNI Digital Podcast

SUMMARY: At the 17th Monthly SubSaharan International Neurosurgery Grand Rounds meeting, the subject of the Management of Giant Brain tumors was discussed. These tumors are seen all over the world, usually related to people seeking medical care late in the disease. Dr. Eric Nussbaum, who has treated a number of these patents from outside the USA describes his experience with a patient who had a Gi...

SUMMARY: Professor Chika Ndubuisi, Acting Head of Neurosurgery at Memfys Hospital in Enugu, Nigeria explains his groups experience with the management of Giant pituitary tumors (Ademonas) at his hospital. There are difficulties in some of the transmission but his message comes across on how to handle these cases. An active discussion follows that is informative. 41 minutes. Ok for video but s...

SUMMARY. Another interview with a successful Neurosurgeon-scientist you would never see or hear elsewhere. Dr Richard Ellenbogen is interviewed by Dr. James Ausman about how he got into Medicine, Neurosurgery, his time as Chair at Walter Reed Hospital, in the armed services. He now is Head of a large successful Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington, Seattle, that is highl...

SUMMARY: Dr. Ramsis Ghaly, with Board certification as a Neurosurgeon, Anesthesiologist; Critical Care Specialist and Pain Medicine Specialist presents a complicated case of a woman who had multiple spine operations and cervical and lumbar fusions for back pain without relief. She became addicted to drugs for the pain. When she was seen by Dr. Ghaly he stopped her drugs, used spinal cord stimulati...

SUMMARY: Drs Asif and Qasim Bashir with the mentoring of Dr Ghaus Malik, describe how they built a First Rate Stroke Center and Neuroscience Center in Punjab, Pakistan for 160 million people. Combining the needs of of the private sector with those of the large public population and using government and private funds, they have developed a leading practice, research and educational progra...

SUMMARY: This Video is likely the best interactive teaching video in SNI Digital®. This cannot be produced in any other format. "Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (MIS) on how I do it". Two different approaches used: 1) Interlaminar Tubular Lumbar Microdiscectomy by Dr. Wague from Senegal and 2) Full Endoscopic Approach using the "Borescope" without a Microscope by Dr. Joham Choque Velasq...

SUMMARY: Dr Ramsis Ghaly, with Boards in Neurosurgery, Anesthesia, Critical Care, Pain medicine presents a personal case of a patient with classic L5/S1 disc disease from a work related injury. Microdiscectomy vs Endoscopic approaches?; Surgical tips; Total Healthcare System failure in supporting this patient with severe disabled pain; What went wrong? Why? Do you see these patients...

SUMMARY: 10 years ago I (Jim Ausman-JIA) was asked to visit Dr. Tom Milhorat in New York to review his work on Chiari abnormalities. I had known Tom from the NIH where he was an excellent scientist. He devoted his career to the study of CSF and Chiari Disorders. He and his interdisciplinary team of Neurologists and Neuroscientists studied the Chiari deformities in a large series of patients. He an...

SUMMARY: This video contains all the three presentations from the 14th International SubSaharan African Grand Rounds in Neurosurgery meeting. The first, by Jorge Lazareff, MD, is an excellent analysis of the evolution of surgical treatments and their basis in scientific fact and dangers in an incomplete understanding of the nature of the disease as we move from what we see to what we cannot s...

SUMMARY: Dr. Al-hassan Dasan Andani from Accra, Ghana presents a case in which a patient from a rural setting was referred to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital for care of a rapidly progressive weakness of the lower extremities and loss of bowel and bladder control. The surgeons diagnosed Cauda Equina Syndrome. The patient had very limited resources to pay. Even the use of a drill at surger...

SUMMARY: Professor Nimrod Mgwanb'ombe, challenges us with a complicated case of cranio-vertebral junction abnormalities presenting as an Chiari I problem symptomatically. However the pathology was complicated by the compaction of the brain stem through the foramen magnum and the posterior displacement of the dens impacting the brain stem and basilar invagination. See how this case management...

SUMMARY: The Technocrats believe that all humans and social problems will be solved with Technology which will also control humans genetically by transhumanism. Is this true? Have you been confused by the following crises, recently? What does the Global Energy Crisis, War in Ukraine, Global Food Crisis, Dutch Farmers' strike, Canada's Truckers' strike, Global Debt and Banking Crisis, Gov...

SUMMARY: Dr. Russell Blaylock presents newly revealed Imaging and Pathologic data confirming his hypothesis that an Acute to Chronic inflammatory cascade, which he calls  "Immuno-excitotoxicity"  is the underlying cause of this disease process and other CNS degenerative diseases. It is initiated by vaccines, toxins, metabolic deficiencies, which can start this cascade with repeated insul...

SUMMARY: Wyandotte, a community outside of Detroit has ordered Fluoride to be restored to drinking water, while most developed nations do not have fluoridated water. Portland, Oregon and other cities have or are removing Fluoride from the drinking water. What is the truth? Does Fluoride cause mental IQ changes in the young? Dr. Russell Blaylock reviews the evidence indicating that F...

SUMMARY: A New strain of Covid initially found in China is spreading world wide. Is this dangerous to you and your patients? Flu-like symptoms with a persistent cough and sore throat are predominant symptoms. The disease which should not be life threatening can be prevented by recommendations of the  Independent Medical Alliance  (IMA) (formerly FLCCC) an organization of 20,000 physician...

SUMMARY: Dr. Ghaus Malik, an internationally recognized expert in the management of Cerebral AVMs, in Part 2 of his Lecture/ Discussion series on the subject, discusses his experience in managing over 800 cerebral AVMs. In Part 2 he presents his experience with Large AVMs, Complex Cerebral AVMs, Embolization; Pediatric Cerebral AVMs, Aneurysms in Pregnancy, Treatment of the Elderly with cerebral A...

SUMMARY: Dr. Ramsis Ghaly, Board certified in Neurosurgery, Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management, unique in the world win specialization, leads a Grand Rounds Discussing OPLL (Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament) and its management in addition to a brief review of the place of Epidural Steroids in pain management. This case gives a perspective of the challenges f...

SUMMARY: With a team of global scientists, Dr. William Loudon, a Pediatric Neurosurgeon, has developed a unique method of guiding a Mircorobotic device in the CSF pathways to enter the brain tissue and to reach defined targets throughout the CNS for tissue sampling or potential drug delivery at the cellar source of this pathology. This work, done in sheep, is compared to using traditiona...

SUMMARY: Video test of French African Education Video; Professor Romauld Seizur; University of Brest; from the Campus of Africa de Neurochirurgie Series; Surgical Anatomy of the Cranio-Cervical Junction. First Click Language of choice and the pick this video. English subtitles can be seen by picking Spanish (temporary) and then picking English; Other 12 languages will be translated in Cl...

SUMMARY: Dr. Joham Choque Velasquez who worked closely with Dr. Hernesniemi for many years as his associate provides us with the firs of a series of presentations on the Principles of Aneurysm Surgery on Anterior Communicating Artery aneurysms. This 60 minute lecture is full of tips and surgical pearls and comprehensive information for your records and reference. His talk was given at the 13th Afr...

SUMMARY: DR. Mbaye Thioub of Dakar, Senegal presents an operative case of Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm. Excellent surgery which follows the principles of Dr. Velasquez, talk on these aneurysms. 22 minutes. (JIA)

SUMMARY: Dr. Mbaye Thioub From Senegal in Africa shows his operative video on Anterior communicating Artery Aneurysms. Excellent video. 22 minutes with discussion.

SUMMARY: Drs. Jeremy Omoro and Okemwa present a rare case of Cerebral Plasmacytoma in a 65 year old female with HA and Left parietal swelling and a progressive course of neurological involvement. A bony mass was seen externally involving the bone, but the neoplasm extended into the brain parenchyma. At surgery hyperostosis of the skull was found from a lesion in the brain, a biochemical bone growt...

SUMMARY:  Why did you go into Medicine?  Dr. Ramsis Ghaly, Board Certified in Neurosurgery, Anesthesia, Critical Care Medicine, & Pain, presents a complicated patient's story of Cervical and Lumbar spine disease. What would you do? Get the facts. See the whole video or hear the Podcast and decide. Lots of messages about spine surgery and Medicine as it is practiced today in the...

SUMMARY: Dr. Blaylock reviews the importance of Vitamin D on human health. On hour exposure to the Sun produces 20,000 units of Vitamin D in the skin/day, far more than needed. The warnings about melanoma are exaggerated as Vitamin D, through the RAS gene, retards cell growth and division. Those with adequate intake of Vitamin D have same risk of melanoma as the unaffected popu...