Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 11, Issue 9 , Pages 363-365, September 2010

Anaesthesia for neurosurgery

Tamsin Gregory MRCP FRCA is a Specialist Registrar on the Wessex rotation. She qualified from the Royal Free and University College Medical School in 2000 and has trained in anaesthesia in Wessex and London. Conflict of interests: none declared

Sally R Wilson BSc FRCA is a Consultant Neuroanaesthetist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. She qualified in 1983 from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School and trained in anaesthesia in London. Her special interests are anaesthesia for neurovascular surgery and neuro-oncology. Conflict of interests: none declared

Abstract 

Neuroanaesthesia provides a unique set of challenges, in which anaesthetists’ knowledge and techniques may directly influence patient outcome. As neurosurgery evolves it has provided neuroanaesthetists with an ever-changing speciality especially in minimally invasive and functional techniques.

Keywords: Anaesthesia, Awake craniotomy, monitoring, neurosurgery, postoperative analgesia

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PII: S1472-0299(10)00130-X

doi:10.1016/j.mpaic.2010.05.007

Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 11, Issue 9 , Pages 363-365, September 2010

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