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What is Vagus Nerve Stimulation Surgery?
Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) are used to treat drug-resistant epilepsy and major depression disorder. Vagus Nerve Stimulation surgery (sometimes referred to as a "epilepsy battery") is a technological surgical procedure involving, the placement of an electrode over the vagus nerve which located in the left neck area, and connecting this electrode to a implantable pulse generator.
This implantable pulse generator sends electrical impulses to the vagus nerve through implanted electrodes, this nerve transfers these impulses to the special brain area to control abnormal signals which responsible for seizures.
How is Vagus Nerve Stimulation surgery performed?
Placing the Vagus Nerve Stimulation electrode and the battery is not a difficult procedure. The surgery is mostly done under general anesthesia.
Firstly, the electrode must be implanted over the left Vagus nerve which located in the cervical (neck) area. After the implantation the electrode it must be tunneled under the skin and connected to the implantable pulse generator which implanted under clavicle.
The best advantages such these operations are reversibility and adjustability (all Neuromodulation approaches like Intrathecal Baclofen Pump, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation, Sacral Nerve Stimulation, and Vagal Stimulation and are reversible interventions, therefore they never result with permanent damage).
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