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Arousal from Anesthesia After Neurosurgical Operations

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Prolonged emergence after a neurosurgical procedure is a very disconcerting problem for both the surgeon and anesthesiologist. Delayed emergence may lead to expensive neuroradiologic testing that would otherwise not be done. Failure to emerge from anesthesia after a neurosurgical procedure may be multifactorial in nature and may be affected by the type of anesthesia used, the area of the brain traumatized by surgery, the size of the tumor, and medications administered to the patient prior to surgery (see Fig. 42.1).

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA

    W. Scott Jellish MD, PhD

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, and Perioperative Medicine, Professor and Chair, University School of Medicine, Portland, 97214, Oregon, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Jellish, W.S. (2012). Arousal from Anesthesia After Neurosurgical Operations. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09562-2_42

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