OSIJEK HOSTS NEUROSURGEONS FROM THE ENTIRE REGION
Fifty participants, neurosurgeons, distinguished experts, and young doctors from the entire region gathered yesterday at the 1st Osijek International neurosurgical course on surgical treatment of degenerative cervical spine disease with an anterior approach, held at the Waldinger Hotel. The gathering was initiated and organized, in cooperation with numerous partners, by Prof. prim. Ph.D. sc. Bruno Splavski, head of the Clinic for Neurosurgery of the Clinical Hospital Center Osijek, and his friend and colleague Kenan Arnautović, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS, professor at Semmes Murphey Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee, in the American city of Memphis. - This is a big meeting; the turnout is fantastic; there are our colleagues from Macedonia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, of course, and Croatia. The lecturers on this course are world-class experts, but the others are much more important, namely young doctors, neurosurgeons, and participants of the meeting who came to this workshop to learn something and practice the anterior approach in cervical spine surgery. Thanks to our sponsors, we have created seven workstations where the operative and anterior approaches to the cervical spine are practically worked on and practiced. This is the first time that such a course is organized in Croatia," said Dr. Splavsky. In addition to the fact that this is a scientific step forward, he added, young doctors must practice here what they will do tomorrow on patients in their hospitals.
This topic was chosen because in Croatia, as well as in the surrounding area, there is not enough knowledge about operations with such an approach. "It is not a new approach, surgical treatment of degenerative cervical spine disease with an anterior approach has already become routine in America. There are many neck and cervical spine injuries, especially in traffic accidents, and the need for such operations is great. Therefore, we decided to transfer this knowledge to our colleagues from the region," emphasizes Prof. Kenan Arnautovic. V. Latinović (http://www.glas-slavonije.hr/)
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