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Awake craniotomy require a cooperative patient during resection neurosurgery phase. Anesthesiologist should guarantee analgesia, sedation, nausea and vomiting prevention, while maintaining normal vital parameters. Neurosurgeon could be help by Intraoperative electrocorticography to maximise lesion resection and avoiding neurologic sequelae. Propofol and remifentanyl have been largely used. Dexmedetomidine represents an alternative. However little is known about the role of dexmedetomidine on Intraoperative electrocorticography.
This study aims to evaluate the effects of using eye patch and earplugs on anxiety, patient comfort, and sleep quality after craniotomy. The study will be carried out in a hospital located in the Northwest of Turkey. A total of 60 patients meeting the research criteria will be randomized to intervention and control groups. An eye patch and earplug will be applied to the intervention group in the intensive care unit on the day of craniotomy and on the post-operative 1st day between 22:00 and 06:00. Standard care procedure will be applied to the control group. Richard-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire, Aktiwatch, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and General Comfort Questionnaire will be used to collect study data.
Clinical investigation to compare the clinical safety and performance of a clamp-like device for craniotomy closure, with the standard of care system, titanium plates and screws.
Postoperative pain after craniotomy is frequent, with moderate-severe intensity. The fear to the side effects of opioids (nausea and vomiting and sedation), and NSAIDs (bleeding) makes it difficult to obtain adequate analgesic control in these patients. Preoperative anxiety may be associated with a poorer postoperative analgesic control, hindering the adequate postoperative evolution and increasing hospital stay and adverse effects. In this observational study, the investigators aimed to assess the postoperative analgesic management in patients undergoing scheduled craniotomy following routine clinical practice and to relate preoperative anxiety with the postoperative analgesic evaluation in this population.
Pain is common in the first 2 days after major craniotomy. Inadequate analgesia may lead to an increased risk of postoperative complications. Most pain following craniotomy arises from the pericranial muscles and soft tissues of the scalp. Scalp nerve blocks with local anesthesia seem to provide effective, safe, however transient postoperative analgesia which does not seem to meet the requirements of craniotomy. Currently, peripheral dexamethasone has been observed to significantly prolong the duration of analgesia of nerve blocks (e.g., saphenous nerve block, adductor canal block, thoracic paravertebral block, brachial plexus nerve block). On the contrary, a study reported that perineural dexamethasone did not appear to prolong the analgesic time after supratentorial craniotomy. However, all patients in this study were given 24 mg of oral or intravenous dexamethasone regularly at least 7 days during the perioperative period, which possibly masked the role of single local low doses of perineural dexamethasone. Therefore, the analgesic effect of single dexamethasone for scalp nerve blocks without the backdrop of perioperative glucocorticoid deserves further clarification.
Severe intraoperative hyperglycemia (SIH) is recognized as one of the important risk factors for the increasing of the postoperative infections rate, which can negatively affect the final outcome of surgical treatment. Studies in recent years have shown a much higher incidence of wound infections, respiratory and urinary tract infections in patients who intraoperatively had an increase in blood glucose level (BGL) above 180 mg/dl (10 mmol/l). This problem in neurosurgery is especially important due to the high proportion of patients with acute injuries and potentially long-term need for postoperative intensive care, as well as the frequent use of drugs that increase blood glucose level (steroids) in neurooncology. Most published studies include patients from both of these groups. This study is aimed to assess the impact of severe intraoperative hyperglycemia on the incidence of infectious complications only in patients scheduled for elective intracranial interventions.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the changes of cerebral oxygen saturation during hyperventilation and normo-ventilation (using near-infrared spectroscopy) in pediatrics undergoing posterior fossa tumor resection.
The main objectives of this study are comparison of the incidence of intraoperative air embolism and the extent of blood loss in patients undergoing posterior cranial fossa (PCF) and pineal region (PR) surgeries in sitting and horizontal position. Additionally, the overall treatment outcome, neurological functional outcome, degree of tumor removal, clinical course in the postoperative period, and the patient satisfaction will be compared between the groups.
Pulse pressure variation (PPV) to standard fluid management (4ml/Kg/hr) in patients undergoing supratentorial mass excision. The investigators hypothesize that in these procedures, goal-directed fluid therapy (GDT) might improve brain relaxation, and patient hemodynamics intra and postoperatively.