Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity needs your help to raise £1.5million to bring an intraoperative MRI scanner to its hospital, which will transform life-changing brain tumour and epilepsy surgery.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital is home to one of the largest paediatric neurosurgical centres in the UK, but it is the only one without an intraoperative MRI (iMRI) scanner.
The hospital’s expert neurosurgeons rely on pre-operative images to identify tumours in a patient’s brain, but during surgery the brain will change shape. This means, very quickly, the pre-operative information becomes outdated.
With iMRI technology, an MRI scanner is moved directly to a patient on an operating table, or a patient to the scanner, to ensure surgeons can obtain ‘live’ and up-to-date information about the position of the tumour. This removes the threat of a second operation under general anaesthetic.
The need for state-of-the-art iMRI technology is simple. It allows the neurosurgeons to accurately and confidently identify whether they have
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fully removed a tumour during a surgical procedure, right when they need the information the most.
Nine-year-old Cian had a 13-hour operation to remove a benign brain tumour. This could have been reduced to six hours if the hospital had the scanner.
The charity needs to raise £1.5million to make the scanner a reality
support will change the experience for patients like Cian
Mr William Lo, consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at the hospital, comments:
“Having access to iMRI technology during surgery is critical as it will provide up-to-date images of the brain to allow surgical procedures to continue without delay. Without it, it’s like navigating a city with an outdated roadmap.
“The ability to scan a patient mid or towards the end of surgery is transformative. In many cases, the surgeon and family are immediately reassured the tumour
has been removed, but ultimately it vastly reduces the need for a second operation, sparing patients and families from going through another lengthy surgical procedure. The scanner will benefit at least one patient a week and could increase our neurosurgical team’s capacity to perform additional operations.”
Help transform brain tumour and epilepsy surgery for sick kids
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