Awake brain surgery is a safe and effective treatment for several brain conditions. Although it may be intimidating for a person to be awake during brain surgery, this is often an essential part of ...

A craniotomy is type of brain surgery. It involves removing part of the skull, or cranium, to access the brain. The bone is replaced when the surgery is done. In general, a craniotomy is done to ...

Awake brain surgery, also known as awake craniotomy, is one of the most significant advances in modern neurosurgery—designed not just to treat disease, but to protect the functions that define a ...

They now use it on all their awake-craniotomy patients, even those like Daniels whose surgery was only expected to last a few hours. Long awake craniotomies are somewhat controversial, however.

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It was evident that awake craniotomy surgery is a complex experience with a considerable impact on the patient ( Table 2 and Table 3). The participants felt that the intervention done under local ...

Doctors at AIIMS, Delhi, successfully performed a brain tumour surgery on a five-year-old girl while keeping her in a conscious state during the operation with the hospital claiming that she was the ...

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A 74-year-old patient in Pune recently underwent an awake craniotomy, a brain surgery performed while the patient is conscious and able to communicate. The procedure involved administering a local ...