P10.05 Establishment of team work awake craniotomy: clinical experience in Taiwan

The Experience of Patients Undergoing Awake Craniotomy

Awake craniotomy Brain neoplasm Patient experience Phenomenology Qualitative research methods Intraoperative mapping is a well-established and safe technique to maximize the excision of tumors involving the eloquent cortex while minimizing neurological damage. Although different techniques are used, very little has been documented about how the patients feel, what they think about, or how they ...

Awake craniotomy

From the Department of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Department of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, the Division of Neurosurgery (Bajunaid), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, and the Division of Neurosurgery (Ajlan), Faculty of...

Commentary: Out-of-Body Experience during Awake Craniotomy

Surgical and anesthesiological considerations of awake craniotomy: Cerrahpasa experience.

AIM Awake craniotomy (AC) with electrical cortical stimulation has become popular during the last ten years although the basic principles were introduced almost 50 years ago. The aim of this paper is to share with the readers our experience in 25 patients who underwent AC with electrical stimulation. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-five patients who underwent AC between 2010 and 2013 are the subj...

Awake Craniotomy and Coaching

Background: The importance of monitoring cognition during awake craniotomy has been well described in previous studies. The relevance of being coached during such a procedure has received less attention and questions still remain unanswered about what factors are the most important herein. Objective: The aim of this study was to qualitatively analyze what factors were, according to our patients...