What is it about?
Using Mayfield's scalp clamp became mandatory in most craniotomies but it leads to potentially hazardous hemodynamic pressor effects. Many interventions like infiltration of local anaesthetics at insertion sites or injecting ketamine, dexmedetomidine, clonidine and magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) had been studied to attenuate these effects. This chapter aims to highlight the efficacy of these interventions through the previously published researches.
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Why is it important?
these undesired pressor effects can be attenuated or even abolished using either one modality or combination of two or more.
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I hope this article makes what people might think is a boring, slightly abstract area like health economics and measuring things like health, kind of interesting and maybe even exciting. Because the way we spend money on health and social care is not just a problem for politicians, managers and researchers to worry about - it is an issue that touches every single human being on this planet in one way or another. More than anything else, and if nothing else, I hope you find this article thought-provoking.
Dr SAMIR AHMED Ahmed ELKAFRAWY
ElSahel Teaching Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
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This page is a summary of: Determination of Mayfield's Scalp Clamp Application during Craniotomies; Everything we Should Know, August 2021, Sciencedomain International,
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/nfmmr/v13/12673d.
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