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Perioperative care of the neurosurgical patient

Perioperative care of the neurosurgical patient describes the processes required to facilitate safely and professionally neurological operative interventions and outcomes. An account is given of the systematic preoperative evaluation needed to optimize a patient’s medical conditions before surgery, the intraoperative anaesthetic management, the postoperative care, and the possible complications that may be encountered. Anaesthetic considerations for specific neurosurgical interventions are also described. Overall, emphasis is placed on the importance of requesting the appropriate investigations, adhering to strategies for the correction of coagulation disorders along with the prevention of venous thromboembolic complications, understanding the effect of anaesthesia on cerebrovascular haemodynamics and providing specialist postoperative facilities and expertise.