Access neurosurgical experts for decision support—on demand with the CNS and Nidus!
The CNS is collaborating with Nidus to help our members and their patients make better-informed decisions together.
“Nidus is an outstanding forum where the experts in brain tumor surgery can provide an opinion on a brain tumor case, leading to a consensus about best in class treatment strategies!”
- E. Antonio Chiocca, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Complex neurosurgical conditions often pose difficult choices between different treatment options. Nidus was founded by neurosurgeons and clinical researchers to facilitate making the right decisions about surgery and surgical approach for the best patient outcome. The Nidus medical advisory board is comprised of current and past CNS leaders such as Zoher Ghogawala, Steven Kalkanis, Daniel Resnick, Douglas Kondziolka, Sepi Amin-Hanjani, and Edward Benzel. The Nidus concept emerged from the clear advantage of having multiple expert opinions from a panel of experienced specialists. Today, Nidus enables you to obtain a virtual consult with an international panel of experts—all within 72 hours. The benefit to you and your patients is the confidence that comes with this decision-support tool in choosing the best management.
CNS-Nidus Case Spotlight
Case Summary: 79 year old male with right frontal meningioma resection in 2008. He has been followed with serial imaging. Recent MRI Brain- shows a 7 mm enhancing focus along the right anterior falx recurrent tumor vs post-operative change.
Recommendation: A significant majority recommended no surgery. Recommendation included continued observation with repeat
imaging at time of follow-up.
Brain Tumor Experts Who Contributed to Review:
E. Antonio Chiocca, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Qingtang Lin, Beijing Xuanwu Hospital
Allan Friedman, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Brain Tumor Conference, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Daniel P. Cahill, Massachusetts General Hospital
Francesco DiMeco, University of Milan
Linda Liau, University of California, Los Angeles
Marie Roguski, Tufts Medical Center
Julian Wu, Tufts Medical Center
Ian Dunn, Oklahoma University Medical Center
Frederick Lang, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
What is Nidus?
Nidus is a web-based platform that virtually connects CNS members and their patients with a global network of neurosurgical expertise and clinical research.
How does Nidus work?
Nidus is an easy-to-use application that allows a neurosurgeon or patient to create a brief case synopsis with clinical history and imaging. The case synopsis is transmitted virtually to the Nidus panel of neurosurgical specialists for review and individual expert opinion. Nidus analyzes the panel recommendations using a machine-learning algorithm built from a large patient database, and presents a customized, concise summary.
Nidus access includes:
- Personalized case building (patient history, imaging)
- Analysis and review from a panel of specialists
- Expert opinions and recommendations based on clinical research and data analytics from an expansive patient outcomes registry
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