Modern anesthetic methods can provide successful brain mapping in almost any patient. Despite integration of awake craniotomy in the world’s leading neurosurgical clinics, some anesthesiologists and neurosurgeons still believe that awake craniotomy for resection of brain tumors is difficult for patients. Objective. To analyze patient satisfaction and subjective feelings after awake craniotomy. Material and methods. There were 30 participants after awake craniotomy. Mean age of patients was 43.2 years. Original checklist for assessment of patient satisfaction after awake craniotomy was developed by Sinbukhova E.V. and Lubnin A.Yu. Pain was assessed using visual analogue scale. We estimated anxiety using Hanin-Spielberger and HADS scales. Results. About 86% of patients had high satisfaction scores for “memories before surgery”, 56.7% of patient — for “memories during surgery”, 33.7% of patients — for “memories after surgery”. Conclusion. When evaluating awake craniotomy according to 10-point scale (10 points — very comfortable anesthesia), only one patient chose 9 points, and all other ones chose the highest score.
Sinbukhova et al. (Wed,) studied this question.