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Specific Considerations Regarding Consent and Communication with Patients and Family Prior to Neurosurgery

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For any medical procedure, informed consent consists of four basic elements: (1) voluntariness, (2) competence, (3) informed, and (4) comprehended (capacity). For neuroanesthesia, satisfaction of the elements may be more difficult due to both the underlying pathology and the difficult choices facing patients undergoing neurosurgery. As a result of the unique nature of neurosurgical cases, anesthesiologists need to allow more time and need to take more care in obtaining consent for the anesthetics used in those cases.

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  1. Operative Care Division, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Kenneth Abbey

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, Vancouver, WA, USA

    Chloe Allen-Maycock

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Abbey, K., Allen-Maycock, C. (2020). Specific Considerations Regarding Consent and Communication with Patients and Family Prior to Neurosurgery. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17410-1_13

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