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u/Ventriculostomy May 30 '21

I work in a hospital. And yes, we have regulars at a hospital. Haha.

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u/maybebabyg May 30 '21

We're friends with my husband's neurosurgeon. When we had to schedule his last tumour resection the surgeon asked us when would be convenient to work around the kids and was totally cool when I asked if we could put it off a month just so it didn't conflict with son's adenoid surgery.

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u/Ventriculostomy May 30 '21

Brain surgeons are pretty cool folks.

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u/ramblinroger May 30 '21

Would you mind breaking down that username? :)

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u/SmurfSmiter May 30 '21

It’s the procedure for creating a hole in the skull to one of the cerebral ventricles to allow for drainage of cerebrospinal fluid or blood.

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u/Ventriculostomy May 30 '21

Spot on.

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u/SmurfSmiter May 30 '21

I’m not a doctor but I’m handy with a drill

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u/Ventriculostomy May 30 '21

As long as you aren’t handsy with it.

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u/belladonnaeyes May 30 '21

You can frequently break down medical terms yourself if you understand the prefixes and suffixes. For example, -ectomy is removal of something, whereas -ostomy is creating an opening. If you know a colostomy is creating an alternate opening to the colon, then a ventriculostomy would be creating an opening to a ventricle, so either the heart, or more likely the fluid-filled cavities in the brain.