During week two, the trainee will expand foundational knowledge to craniotomy management for traumatic brain injury and pituitary surgery. The trainee will:
- Describe common postoperative complications after craniotomy and management
- Explain the intraoperative concerns and anesthetic management of patients undergoing transsphenoidal pituitary surgery for pituitary tumors
- Explain the conceptual and practical aspects of administering anesthesia for a basic craniotomy
Craniotomy: concerns and complications
- Fellows’ and Residents’ Audio Corner – SNACC (Delayed Emergence After a Craniotomy, April 2019)
- Quiz 31: Reflexes during neurosurgery
Basic OR management of craniotomy
- Fellows’ and Residents’ Audio Corner – SNACC (Anesthesia for Craniotomy Part 1, March 2021)
- Intracranial tumor PBLD
- Article: Comparison of propofol and volatile agents for maintenance of anesthesia during elective craniotomy procedures: systematic review and meta-analysis (PMID 24482247)
- Expert Audio Corner (March 2016, Scalp Blockade for Postcraniotomy Pain)
- Quiz 26: Scalp blocks and craniotomy pain
- Article: “Scalp block” during craniotomy: a classic technique revisited (PMID 20479675)
- Overview, TBI by Martin Smith
- TBI PBLD
- Quiz 43: TBI 101
- Quiz 46: Concussive Injury
- Brain Trauma Foundation Guideline (4th edition, 2016)
- Fellows’ and Residents’ Audio Corner – SNACC (Traumatic Brain Injury, June 2016)
- Interactive case discussion, Anesthetic management of TBI
Pituitary surgery – Secreting tumors/Non-secreting tumors
- Pituitary surgery PBLD
- Quiz 21: Pituitary Disease
- Quiz 27: Pituitary Apoplexy
- Article: Anesthesia for transsphenoidal pituitary surgery (PMID 23963232)
Supplementary Reading (SNACC Bibliography Collection)
- Brain tumor articles (See D Sharma 2010, CT Wu 2010, AW Gelb 2008, and J Chui 2014)
- TBI articles
- Pituitary surgery articles