Anesthetic Considerations for Functional Neurosurgery

Abstract

Functional neurosurgery is a rapidly growing field that uses surgical resection, ablation, or neuromodulation to treat an assortment of neurologic and psychiatric disorders, the most common of which are movement disorders and epilepsy. Anesthesiologists caring for patients undergoing neurofunctional procedures should be aware of the anesthetic implications of patients' underlying disease as well as procedure-specific concerns, such as the effects of anesthetics on intraoperative neuromonitoring and limited access to patients due to stereotactic frames or intraoperative imaging.

Keywords: Anesthesia; Deep brain stimulation; Epilepsy; Functional neurosurgery; Parkinson disease.