Day surgery awake craniotomy for removing brain tumours: Technical note describing a simple protocol

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 208-210

  Carrabba, G ^a   Venkatraghavan, L ^a   Bernstein, Mark ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Awake anaesthesia; Awake craniotomy; Brain mapping; Day surgery

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIST; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANADA; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COOPERATION; CRANIOTOMY; FAMILY; HUMAN; NURSE; PATIENT SELECTION; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; BONE PLATES; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 50849134842     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1073132     Document Type: Article

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