Dr Ashwin Borkar

Key Skills: Emergency surgery (head trauma) – craniotomy for extradural hematoma, acute and chronic subdural hematomas, elevation of depressed skull fractures, anterior cranial fossa carpeting for traumatic CSF fistulas Emergency surgery (stroke) – decompressive craniectomy (including posterior fossa) Elective surgery – VP shunts, tumors (convexity meningiomas, superficial gliomas) Spine surgery – laminectomy, spinal fusion procedure (including cervical spine) Assistance in all kinds of advanced neurosurgical procedures, including: Vascular, including aneurysms (including giant), AVMs/AVFs (including spinal), EC-IC bypass Tumors, including spinal Skull base surgery Pediatric neurosurgery Endoscopic neurosurgery, including ventriculostomy Functional neurosurgery, including epilepsy Minimally invasive spine surgery Peripheral nerve surgery Spinal trauma – nonsurgical and emergency management Neurocritical care Nonsurgical management, perioperative care and rehabilitation of neurosurgical patients Areas of Interest: Neuro Oncology Neurotrauma Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and Spine Surgeries