Effects of neuronavigation-assisted minimally invasive operation in surgical rescue to emergency neurosurgical disease

Objective To explore the role of neuronavigation in emergency surgical rescue for traumatic neurological disease. Methods Sixty-eight patients received surgical treatment for critical neurological disease between May 2016 and March 2017 were included and divided into navigation group and freehand group. Their general information, category of neurological emergency, radiologic characteristics, duration of ICU and hospital stay, perioperative GCS score and prognostic GOS score were retrospectively analyzed. Results These 68 patients (39 males and 29 females) ranged from 19 to 71 years old. The surgery duration and the average length of ICU stay in navigation group (n=16) was shorter than that in freehand group (n=52), but there was no significant difference between the 2 groups. Preoperative GCS score of navigation group was higher than freehand group and there were significant statistic difference (P=0.046) between the two groups with (9.7±4.1) in navigation group and (7.3±3.5) in freehand group. However, the three-month GOS score was not of significant difference between the two groups. The rate of optimal accuracy of the ventricular draining tube was 83.3% in navigation group and 64.3% in freehand group. Conclusion Neuronavigation-assisted minimally invasive operation may be of help to increase the accuracy of lesion localization and ventricular penetration, and may lead to a decrease in surgery duration, especially in the cases of ventricular narrowing and hematoma in deep brain region. Key words: Neuronavigation; Neurotarmatic; Emergency rescue; Minimally invasive surgery