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ON February 12, Dr Renée Cruickshank, consultant neurosurgeon and spine surgeon, did the country’s first endoscopic spine surgery at the Community Hospital of Seventh-day Adventists in Port of Spain.

“It certainly was a monumental occasion,” she told Newsday during a telephone interview on February 14.

Endoscopic spine surgery is the next enhancement of minimally invasive spinal surgery. Cruickshank said this type of surgery collateral led to less damage to the tissues of the spinal column.