蒙大拿州博兹曼卫生系统启动首个神经外科项目 西南地区患者不必再远赴外州
蒙大拿州博兹曼卫生系统（Bozeman Health）10月26日宣布启动该机构首个神经外科项目，在博兹曼卫生执事地区医疗中心设立神经外科与脊柱诊所，为蒙大拿州西南部11个县的患者提供脑部、脊柱与复杂神经外科治疗，患者今后不必再远赴犹他州等地就医。
项目由今年加盟的两名持证神经外科医生领衔：约瑟夫·斯拉梅克（Joseph Sramek）有25年以上经验，曾任卡利斯佩尔洛根健康外科主任；詹姆斯·卡利瓦斯（James Kalyvas）来自新奥尔良，曾任杜兰大学医学院神经外科脊柱医学主任。团队还包括骨科脊柱外科医生本·史密斯及多名高级执业人员。
项目启动数月来已完成多例关键手术：一名3岁男童米洛（Milo）在游乐场被秋千击中头部、颅内出血危及生命，团队放弃转送犹他州的原计划，就地实施紧急开颅手术，男童现已恢复活泼状态；卡利瓦斯本月还完成了博兹曼首例TOPS保活动脊柱手术，患者术后当天即可行走、次日出院。博兹曼卫生系统首席执行官凯瑟琳·贝尔塔内（Kathryn Bertanay）称，增设神经外科是该机构服务本州社区的重要里程碑。
Bozeman Health Launches Southwest Montana's First Neurosurgery Program, Ending Long Trips Out of State for Brain and Spine Care
Bozeman Health announced on October 26 the launch of its first neurosurgery program, opening a Neurosurgery and Spine Clinic at Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center in Bozeman, Montana. The program gives patients across the system's eleven-county region in southwest Montana access to brain, advanced spine and complex neurosurgical care without traveling out of state, often to Utah, as they previously had to do for both emergency and planned care.
The program is led by two board-certified neurosurgeons who joined Bozeman Health this year: Dr. Joseph Sramek, who has more than 25 years of experience and previously chaired the Department of Surgery at Logan Health in Kalispell, and Dr. James Kalyvas, who came from New Orleans, where he served as medical director of neurosurgical spine at Tulane University School of Medicine. Orthopedic spine surgeon Dr. Ben Smith and several advanced practice providers round out the team.
In its first months the team has already handled critical cases. Three-year-old Milo arrived at the emergency department after a playground swing struck him in the head, causing life-threatening bleeding on the right side of his brain; instead of waiting for a transfer to Utah, surgeons performed an emergency craniotomy locally, and the boy has recovered to his active, playful self. This month Kalyvas also performed Bozeman's first TOPS motion-preserving spine procedure, with the patient walking the day of surgery and home the next day. CEO Kathryn Bertanay called adding neurosurgery a significant milestone for the community and the state.
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图片来源：蒙大拿州博兹曼市中心的Downtowner大楼。图片：Tim Evanson，CC BY-SA 2.0，取自维基共享资源。
