Acknowledgment The authors express their gratitude to previous authors of this chapter: Alex John London, Angelique Reitsma, and Connie Zuckerman. Research advances and heightened clinical capabilities have enabled those who…
Introduction The successful treatment of pain in the preoperative patient is important with all surgical specialties, but in many instances it is more critical in the patient undergoing neurosurgical or…
Introduction Neurologic disorders requiring surgical intervention during pregnancy are not uncommon, and many anesthesiologists eventually encounter a pregnant woman in need of a neurosurgical procedure. The anesthetic management of such…
Huntington’s disease Huntington’s disease is a universally fatal neurodegenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system that results from an autosomal dominant mutation in the huntingtin gene. It is characterized by…
Epidemiology of head injury A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the function of the…
Awake craniotomy Awake craniotomy refers to surgery that is performed on the brain while the patient is in a state of awareness and that allows for cooperation with functional testing…
Introduction Stereotactic surgery is a minimally invasive surgical intervention used for the treatment of functional disorders and in the diagnosis of intracranial lesions. The anesthesiologist plays a key role in…
Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) was initially introduced in the early 1950s. An intuitively appealing procedure, the number of procedures rose steadily until 1985, when CEA was ranked the third most common…
Surgical management of brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) is one of the most challenging in neurosurgery and, despite the relative rarity of the disease, the subject of a disproportionally large fraction…
Although it is simplistic, the statement by the British neurosurgeon J. Gillingham that “in the early years anesthetists spent their time pushing the brain out of the skull while in…
