The 35,000-square-foot center includes a CT scanner and eight operating rooms with high-powered microscopes, GPS-like neuro-navigation systems and intraoperative lasers.
The center also features a $9 million 3-Tesla MRI machine that could save one-third of patients from a follow-up operation by allowing surgeons to scan a patient’s brain or spine during surgery.
“Having this level of imaging guidance really changes the game,” Florida Hospital pediatric neurosurgeon James Baumgartner, MD, said in the report.
Read the Orlando Sentinel report on Florida Hospital’s neurosurgery center.
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