Chapter 53
- Neurosurgical Anesthesia
- John C. Drummond
- Piyush M. Patel
This chapter provides guidelines for the management of common
situations in neurosurgical anesthesia. The first section begins with a review of
issues that arise in connection with a wide variety of neurosurgical procedures.
These issues constitute a checklist that the practitioner should review before undertaking
anesthesia for any neurosurgical procedure. Procedure-specific
discussions follow. This chapter assumes familiarity with the cerebral physiology
and effects of anesthetics as described in Chapter
21
. Neurologic monitoring is described in Chapter
38
, and carotid endarterectomy is discussed in Chapter
52
.
