The nervous system is one of the most difficult parts of the body to operate. It is not easily accessible, not well known and imprecision can cause serious squeal. Therefore the combined imaging technologies are essential aid for neurosurgery. The most sophisticated devices of this type are neuronavigation because they allow acting with a margin of error of a millimeter in very delicate.

The commitment to these technologies is expensive. One of the devices for more advanced cerebral involvement is completed with other instruments for the column and lungs. In total, more than a million euros of investment. The neuronavigation has greatly facilitated surgery. It brings precision and safety. Although the physician recognizes that they must not be fascinated by everything new. There are no efficacy studies, but the impression of neurosurgeons have less difficulty in operating, they get in increasingly difficult cases and mortality and morbidity is much less. In the hospital performed the first brain stimulation intervention in Spain in 2004 there has been about 700 such operations.

The next step is to act not only in the brain, but on the spinal cord. And this hospital has, since last July, the only column neuronavigation equipment in public health. Working in with this equipment has the advantage that access is easier, and once the intervention has been made, you can check if the screws are placed, or otherwise fix it in the same act surgery.