Electrical Cortical Stimulation Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of electrical cortical stimulation in Gurgaon typically ranges from $620 to $6,000 USD (about ₹58,800 to ₹5.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for electrical cortical stimulation in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If the operation is planned and you need only a short stay in neuro intensive care, your bill is likely to be closer to $620 (about ₹58,800). It is likely to be nearer $6,000 (about ₹5.69 lakh) if the surgery is more complex, special navigation or monitoring equipment or an implanted device is used, or you need longer in intensive care.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for electrical cortical stimulation, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Neuro-intensive care days
• Implants or devices used
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Electrical cortical stimulation uses electrodes placed on or in the brain to map which areas control important functions, normally during assessment for epilepsy surgery.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) says that invasive EEG is used when earlier tests have not shown where seizures start, or when that area may control an important function, and cortical stimulation checks whether areas planned for removal are essential.

Epilepsy Action points out that invasive EEG is used rarely, as most mapping is done with fMRI and other scans.

GOSH describes grids or strips placed through an opening in the skull, or depth electrodes through small holes, with monitoring for up to seven days and a total stay of about 11 to 12 days.

It reports an infection risk of 10 to 15% because wires leave through the skin, and in about 20% the seizure origin still cannot be found.

Flying home: UK Civil Aviation Authority medical guidance treats 7 days after brain or nerve surgery as the shortest wait, and neurosurgeons often ask for longer.

A Gurgaon quote for electrical cortical stimulation is normally made up of these items:

• Scans before the operation: MRI, CT or an angiogram.
• Theatre, navigation and monitoring: including nerve monitoring when it is used.
• Days in neuro intensive care: after the operation is over.
• Electrodes: grids, strips or depth.
• Monitoring period: up to about a week.
• Length of stay: commonly 11 to 12 days.
• Further surgery: if a seizure area is found.

Brain and spine treatment costs depend on complexity, intensive care and any devices, so complex cases in Gurgaon can cost more than the range above.

Gurgaon's larger hospitals provide neurosurgery with neuro-intensive care and, in some units, intraoperative imaging or nerve monitoring, so ask which your operation will involve.

NABH, the hospital accreditation board of the Quality Council of India whose standards carry ISQua accreditation, sets the national benchmark for hospitals, and its online directory shows whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is still current.

Gurgaon is part of Delhi NCR, where India's first hospital to gain Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation did so in 2005, and JCI publishes a searchable list of the organisations it currently accredits.

Gurgaon sits on the south-western edge of Delhi, a short road transfer from Indira Gandhi International Airport, which is the usual arrival point for international patients.