Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become an established procedure for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders. With the increased use of DBS, DBS-related problems have emerged as more common, and awareness of these issues has become more important for clinicians. Adverse events vary widely depending on the situation. We deal only with emergent situations here and separate the possible scenarios into: (1) perioperative (intra- and early postoperative) and (2) postoperative (following 2–4 weeks) settings. With ten clinical vignettes, we address how clinicians should appropriately detect and manage the emergent/urgent issues in a DBS cohort.
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Morishita, T., Burdick, A.P., Okun, M.S. (2013). Perioperative Emergencies Associated with Deep Brain Stimulation. In: Frucht, S. (eds) Movement Disorder Emergencies. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-835-5_20
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