Kubilay Dogan Kilic1, Yigit Uyanikgil1,2, Emel Oyku Cetin3 and Mehmet Turgut4* 1Department of Histology and Embryology, Ege University, School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey 2Cord Blood, Cell-tissue Research and Application Center, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey 3Department of Biopharmaceutics and Pharmacokinetics, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey 4Department of Neurosurgery, Adnan Menderes University ...

Even the word "neurosurgery" itself conjures immediate feelings of complexity and incomprehensibility to the student who is trying to understand the concepts involved in surgical treatments of the human brain. Especially at the beginning of the road to understanding this complex subject, the student is often overwhelmed and frustrated by the explosive number of monographs, texts, atlases, and o...

An institutional health partnership collaborating to improve the quality of service delivery and education within the fields of nursing, anesthetics, and neurosurgery in Norway and Malawi. The project aims to establish a competent neurosurgical service in Malawi and train Norwegian health personnel in global health challenges. An additional project aim is to improve the Norwegian health system ...

Anaesthesia for neurosurgery, especially intracranial operations, requires conditions which maintain the perfusion of the brain with blood. This perfusion results from the cerebral perfusion pressure: the difference between the arterial and the intracranial pressures. Anaesthesia must also facilitate surgical access by reducing brain volume and minimizing surgical haemorrhage. Other common prob...

The simple exciter,t designed in conjunction with Robert F. Wilson, is a device for excitation of the nervous system. It combines ease of operation and portability. Power is derived from the 1 10volt A.C. power mains, and the output of the machine is 60-cyde sinusoidal. A switch provides for momentary or continuous excitation. A variac control unit is used to obtain smooth adjustment of voltage...

The initial concept of brain protection during neurosurgery is based on research done in the 1970s-1980 which established the concept that by decreasing cerebral metabolic rate the brain could survive longer periods of ischemia. The first section of this chapter reviews some of this initial research that promoted the use of barbiturates for cerebral protection. The second section reviews curren...

definitively judged on the basis of scientific evidence. Large-scale, randomized controlled studies and metaanalyses are currently in progress, but no conclusive findings have yet been reported regarding the potential advantages, for various indications, of this new technique over other, established ones. In this article, neuroendoscopic techniques and their indications and results will be desc...

BACKGROUND Medical errors cause nearly 100,000 deaths per year and cost billions of dollars annually. In order to rationally develop and institute programs to mitigate errors, the relative frequency and costs of different errors must be documented. This analysis will permit the judicious allocation of scarce healthcare resources to address the most costly errors as they are identified. METHOD...

Filip Gabalec, Monika Drastikova, David Netuka, Vaclav Masopust, Tomas Cesak, Josef Machac, Josef Marek, Jan Cap, Martin Beranek. 4 Department of Internal Medicine – Hematology, Institute of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, and Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Hradec Kralove and Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove; Department of Neurosurgery,...