Anesthesia for awake craniotomy: A retrospective study

Neurology India

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 376-381

  Sinha, Prabhat ^a,b   Koshy, Thomas ^a   Gayatri, P ^a   Smitha, V ^a   Abraham, Mathew ^a   Rathod, Ramesh ^a  

^a SREE CHITRA TIRUNAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Awake craniotomy; Bispectral index; Complication; Fentanyl; Haloperidol; Monitoring; Propofol; Regional anesthesia; Scalp block

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; BUPIVACAINE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DICLOFENAC; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; HALOPERIDOL; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; METOPROLOL; MIDAZOLAM; ONDANSETRON; PROPOFOL; RANITIDINE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; AWAKE CRANIOTOMY; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRANIOTOMY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; LARYNGEAL MASK; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCALP BLOCK; SEDATION; SEIZURE; TACHYCARDIA; TIGHT BRAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 36549065646     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.33308     Document Type: Article

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