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01.10.2013 | Editorial - Brain Tumors
The reliability of asleep-awake-asleep protocol for intraoperative functional mapping and cognitive monitoring in glioma surgery
verfasst von:
Hugues Duffau
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurochirurgica
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Ausgabe 10/2013
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Excerpt
In this issue of Acta Neurochirurgica, Hansen et al. [
9] proposed a new anaesthesiologic protocol for intrasurgical mapping “Awake craniotomies without any sedation: the awake-awake-awake technique”. They reported a series of 50 patients who underwent such “awake-awake-awake” craniotomy for resection of 49 tumors (46 gliomas, three metastasis) and one cavernoma in eloquent areas. Patients did not require any sedation and no or only low-dose opioid treatment. The authors have therefore to be congratulated for their results. …