Scalp Block: Hemodynamic Stability and Patient Comfort In Craniotomy Patients
Status:
Withdrawn
Trial end date:
2021-09-30
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Making sure the heart rate and or the blood pressure [called hemodynamic instability] during
surgery is stable, setting up for a rapid postoperative recovery, and ensuring that patients
have adequate pain relief are some of the important goals of neurosurgical anesthesia. Scalp
block anesthesia [injection of a numbing agent into the area of the scalp where the incision
will be] together with general anesthesia is used to achieve these goals. There has been some
research on whether or not scalp block improves patient recovery and pain management, but the
studies have not be large enough to say for certain. This is true even though scalp block is
used with almost every patient that is having brain surgery. The investigators propose to
determine if scalp block in combination with asleep anesthesia is better than asleep
anesthesia alone in patients who are having brain surgery for tumors in the cerebral area of
the brain.