• Combining precise surgical skills and cutting-edge technology
• The most advanced and pioneering centre for all keyhole surgeries for brain and spine
• Centre doing the highest number of keyhole discectomy(Cervical and Lumbar) , minimally invasive TLIF , keyhole excision of spinal cord tumors ,keyhole procedures for lumbar canal stenosis and keyhole spine fixations
• Brain tumors like eloquent area lesions , CP angle tumors , brainstem tumors are done under intraoperative monitoring.
• No wait policy for the management of head and spine trauma
• First centre in Kerala to do minimally invasive TLIF.
• First centre in Kerala to do TLIF under navigation.
• First centre in Kerala to do Long segment percutaneous pedicle screw fixation
• First centre in Kerala to use D wave monitoring for spinal cord (Intra medullary and other tumors)
• Regularly doing awake craniotomies under monitoring and navigation
• First centre in Trivandrum to use regular intracranial pressure monitoring for head trauma and brain tumors
• Academic centre for simulated minimally invasive workshop

The range of treatments and procedures offered in this department include:

• Day care surgeries – Minimally invasive (Keyhole) cervical and lumbar disc surgeries
• Minimally invasive (Keyhole ) fusion procedures for listhesis
• Percutaneous pedicle screw fixation for fractures
• Endoscopic base of skull surgeries (with ENT department)
• Endoscopic surgery for pituitary tumors , craniopharyngiomas , hypothalamic tumors etc.
• Endoscopic CSF leak repair
• Endoscopic excision of skull base tumors, meningioma , clival tumors , gliomas & all other brain tumors.
• Keyhole surgeries for aneurysms and anterior skull base tumors.
• Keyhole surgery for trigeminal neuralgia
• Adolescent and adult degenerative spine deformity corrections
• Most advanced systems for intracranial pressure monitoring and brain oximetry and BIS in severe head injury.
• Intra operative neuromonitoring which includes, SSEP , MEP , D wave , BIS
• Surgery for brain and spine trauma
• Pediatric neurosurgery
• Peripheral nerve surgeries