Abstract AIMS Awake craniotomy for brain tumour resection aims to increase the extent of while minimising neurological deficit. The major concerns patients during awake craniotomies include peri-operative discomfort/pain and anxiety some patients. Older are generally not offered aggressive operative options due longer lengths hospital stay (LOS), expected higher rates morbidity/mortality, poore...

AMA Lechowicz-Głogowska BE, Uryga A, Weiser et al. Reply to the commentary. Risks and tasks of awake craniotomy under conscious sedation. Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy. 2023;55(2):133-135. doi:10.5114/ait.2023.129311. APA Lechowicz-Głogowska, B. E., Uryga, A., Weiser, Salomon-Tuchowska, B., Fortuna, W., & Burzyńska, M. (2023). Therapy, 55(2), 133-135. https://doi.org/10.5114/ait.2023.129311...

OBJECTIVES Patients undergoing awake craniotomy may experience high levels of stress. Minimizing anxiety benefits patients and surgeons. Music has many therapeutic effects in altering human mood and emotion. Tonality of music as conveyed by composition in major or minor keys can have an impact on patients' emotions and thoughts. Assessing the effects of listening to major and minor key musical ...

Awake craniotomy represents an essential option for surgical procedures requiring a patient’s participation in defining the extent of resection. This includes excision of epileptogenic foci, performed in patients with medically refractory epilepsy. Approximately 2 million Americans with a diagnosis of epilepsy are treated with Antiepileptic Drugs (AEDs), of these 20 percent continue to have sei...

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The authors describe the combination of awake craniotomy and minimally invasive endoscopic port surgery to resect a high-grade glioma located near eloquent structures of the temporal lobe. Combined minimally invasive techniques such as these may facilitate deep tumor resection within eloquent regions of the brain, allowing minimum white matter dissection. Technical aspects of this procedure, a ...

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...