Patient’s Acting on their Own Care: Medical Hypnosis for Perioperative Management in The Awake Craniotomy. Technical Report and Clinical Cases.

The patient as the custodian of their own care is a concept that has been evolving for several years and can help to better quicker recovery. Medical Hypnosis (MH) assist practitioner reduce patient’s pain disorders understand, accept, manage situation. Recently, this technique increasingly used in awake surgery protocols. This paper describes three examples successful perioperative management patients who benefited from an craniotomy tumor resection with aid MH. Another case had developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after operation without MH also described.