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Network Analysis of Foramen Ovale Electrode Recordings in Drug-resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients
Published on: December 18, 2016
Anesthesia for temporal lobe epilepsy surgery
1Department of Anesthesia, University of Western Ontario, London Health Sciences Centre, Canada.
Abstract:
Anesthetic considerations for temporal lobectomy for refractory epilepsy include ensuring a safe and comfortable perioperative experience for the patient, providing suitable operating conditions for the surgeon, avoiding interference with intraoperative electrocorticographic (ECoG) recordings and facilitating intraoperative functional cortical mapping, if performed. Providing the conditions that simultaneously meet these requirements, using general anesthesia or local anesthesia with sedation, remains a significant challenge for the neuroanesthetist. We review issues pertinent to the choice of anesthetic technique for these procedures.
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