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Filter by:Investigators conduct this retrospective analysis to test this hypothesis that the EEG spectrogram guided general anesthesia with dexmedetomidine co-administration with propofol may significantly reduce the propofol consumption during craniotomy and to investigate potential benefits on postoperative outcomes.
The purpose of this study was to identify the predictive factors of unpredicted movement in motor evoked potential (MEP) during intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring in adult patients undergoing brain surgery.
The investigators prospectively want to use the Infrascanner in patients with ischemic stroke, patients with brain surgery, patients with brain tumors, patients with intracranial hemorrhage and patients with a normal CT scan of the brain as part of a diagnostic work-up after head trauma or headache to determine to positive and negative predictive value of the Infrascanner in these different settings.
This is a prospective randomized double blinded trial study involving 128 patients undergoing any craniotomy procedure at Evanston Hospital. The patients will be randomized by the sealed envelope technique. The anesthesiologist and nurses who will be administering the placebo or intravenous acetaminophen will be blinded to the group in which patients are assigned. The following general perioperative data will be recorded: patient information/preoperative data, procedural information, postoperative information, and overall satisfaction of pain management at 24 hours after surgery. Based on a pilot study (N-20) we expect that 25% of the placebo treated patients will require no opioids in the first 24 hour postoperative period. With the use of intravenous acetaminophen, it is hypothesized that the number of patients that do not require opioids in the first 24 hours after surgery will double.