Andras Karoly Csokay
Saint Lazarus County Hospital, HungaryPresentation Title:
Jesus prayers applied in separation of craniopagus twins (medical innovation and distress elimination by contemplation)
Abstract
Purpose: Challenging cases in
neurosurgery require experience, which is gained by operating on a number of
similarly difficult cases. However, even in large population centers, there are
extremely rare cases, such as craniopagus twins. In these instances, other
case-specific solutions are required which were improved in the course of fresh
cadaver practice on daily base.
Methods: During a 20-month preparation
period by fresh cadavers the surgical strategy was developed step by step,
comprising five neurosurgical ideas, facilitated by deep Jesus prayers as a
spiritual source.
Results: During surgery, these nuances
proved to be useful, which is also reflected by the postoperative clinical
results. One of the twins advanced to a GOS score of 5three months after the
surgery. The other twin, despite nonsurgical septic complications, continued to
progress well, but on postoperative day 33 for seemingly unknown reasons, she
suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage, which significantly delayed her
rehabilitation.
Conclusions:
The Jesus Prayer written in the title was the greatest help and
spiritual strength during our preparation (300 autopsy exercises) and during
the 24 hours of surgery. It was a real experience that the scientific
ideas were born during Jesus prayers and
also the serious professional decisions during surgery. This was the truth, and
it is precisely in science that we must not deny the facts, because science,
including psychology, is also searching for the truth, for the movements of the
soul and its role in intellectual, even scientific, decisions.
Biography
András Csokay has completed his PHD at the age of 48 years
from Semmelweis University, Hungary. He was the head of neurosurgical
departments in Hungary. He has innovations that have been cited over 250 times
in the field of neurotrauma.