Dr. Ernest Braxton, a neurosurgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, introduced a breakthrough procedure at Vail Health by completing a successful spine surgery with his patient awake. The ...

Are you able to stay awake while surgeons take a look inside your body? “Awake Surgery” is TLC’s newest limited series that only has three episodes. The show will premiere on Monday, December 14 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among 1,011 patients undergoing wide-awake hand surgery, 4.3% of patients had superficial skin infections and no ...

Tampa based Celebrity Board-Certified Plastic Surgeon Dr. Meegan Gruber expands an interactive approach that allows real-time ...

For more information, visit erikdorfmd.com/walant. The idea of remaining “wide awake” during any kind of surgery might sound terrifying, but there are many ...

For patients with Parkinson's disease or epilepsy, deep brain stimulation (DBS) can allow their tremors and seizures to abate somewhat. The procedure can improve the quality of life for these patients ...

CINCINNATI — Ringed by neurosurgeons in sky-blue scrubs, masks and magnifying loupes, Makenzi Alley lay on a Jewish Hospital operating table and smiled. Her brain glistened pink and purple under the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Imagine being out of the country and needing life-saving surgery – it happened to one dad while on vacation with his two young boys. It turns out, the sun and fun combined with ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. On Tuesday morning, the staff at ...

Video footage from a Singapore operating theatre, has shown a complicated brain surgery procedure, performed while the patient was awake. Zhi Long, the 23-year-old patient, was found to have a ...

It was a series of everyday words the patient spoke — butterfly, hello, turtle, 20, banana — that told surgeons and 2,000 onlookers, they were in the right spot. On Tuesday morning, the staff at ...