Medical Mini: Seeing Your Own Brain Before Surgery - Danielle Collins & Stefannie MacDonald

What if you could fly inside your own brain before surgery?
Welcome to Medical Minis, a new segment on This Is Your Brain.
Many of you have written asking about the surgeries Dr. Stieg performs, the patients he cares for, and the experiences and technologies that have shaped him. Your curiosity inspired a new addition to the show: short segments that take you behind the scenes of neurosurgery and into the operating room. We'll explore the tools and technologies we use, the decisions we face, and the human stories at the heart of our work.
In this Medical Mini, Dr. Phil Stieg talks with patient advocate Danielle Collins and Stefannie MacDonald, Head of Product Management at Surgical Theater. Danielle was in a workout class when a ruptured AVM in her temporal lobe hit her with a sudden, severe headache. In the hospital, a VR headset let her see her own brain in 3D while her surgeon walked her through the operation step by step. MacDonald explains how Surgical Theater turns CT and MRI scans into a patient-specific model, why surgeons rehearse each case before they operate, and why a person always checks the images. Danielle also talks about recovery, fear and living with intention.
"I was able to fly inside of my brain."
Surgical Theater - surgicaltheater.com