Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (Accident Hospital Berlin) — photo: Daniel Flaschar / ukb

Prof. Dr. med. Patrick Schuss

Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, specialist in neurosurgery, additional qualification in intensive care medicine

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2016 Habilitation "therapy and management of patients with high grade subarachnoid hemorrhage", Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany.
2016 - 2019 Senior physician, Department of Neurosurgery (Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vatter), Bonn University Hospital
2016 - 2021 Head of Department "Neurosurgical Oncology" Bonn University Hospital, Center for Integrative Oncology
2016 - 2021 Head of the interdisciplinary neurological-neurosurgical intensive care unit, Bonn University Hospital
2019 - 2021 Deputy clinic director and managing senior physician, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Bonn University Hospital
Since 2021 Director of the Clinic for Neurosurgery, BG Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin

Focus

Injury consequences of the craniocerebral trauma	Brain tumors (gliomas, metastases, meningiomas, etc.)
Cranial base surgery (pituitary gland, acoustic neuromas, etc.)	Vascular diseases of the brain (aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformations, cavernomas)
Spinal surgery including neuromodulation and treatment of spinal cord injuries in the interdisciplinary competence center at the ukb	Cerebrospinal fluid accumulation (hydrocephalus treatment)

Spectrum

Spoken languages: English, French, German, Greek

Operations: > 1,200 / year at ukb

Scientific publications, book articles, abstracts: >200

Get in touch today

Contact information Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin (ukb)

Address

Warener Straße 7
12683 Berlin

Phone

+49 (0)30 - 5681-1564

Email

info [at] ukb-international.com (info[at]ukb-international[dot]com)

Website

www.ukb-international.com

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Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery is a discipline that deals with diseases, malformations and injuries of the central and peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system (CNS) encompasses the brain and spinal cord, while the peripheral nervous system (PNS) refers to the nerves outside the cranium and spinal cord.

In the past, operations on the cranium and spine often entailed a high level of risk and long recovery times, but nowadays modern imaging methods and keyhole techniques allow surgery to be performed with minimum impact. For the patients concerned, this means less risk, less pain and a quicker recovery process. Minimally-invasive procedures are already being used in tumour surgery, microsurgery on aneurysms and in spinal surgery.

In the assessment of brain tumours as the basis for further therapy treatment, neuropathology acts as a direct partner of neurosurgery and offers therapy- and prognosis-relevant tissue diagnostics and molecular analyses. Since only the removed tissue is required for this purpose, the examinations can also take place independently of the patient's place of hospitalisation.

Pain therapy is another important branch of neurosurgery, too. Specialists can also use minimally-invasive methods here to reduce pain arising from a slipped disc, spinal stenosis or carpal tunnel syndrome.

Neurosurgery in Berlin