[Total intravenous anesthesia in neurosurgical patients]. / Anestesia totalmente endovenosa in pazienti neurochirurgici.

The authors present an anesthesiologic technique, consisting of the use of propofol + fentanyl + O2. The main advantages, described in 82 neurosurgically treated patients, are the following: moderate decrease both of ICP and MAP, absence of frequency, modifications rapid recovery both of consciousness and of motility, which allows a preliminary valuation of neurological status.

[Urapidil: hypotension induced in neuroanesthesia]. / Urapidil: ipotensione indotta in neuroanestesia.

The authors report their experience on the use of urapidil in 31 patients, submitted to neurosurgical procedures. Urapidil, administered both in the inductive (0.7-1 mg/kg) and in preoperative phases (0.6-0.8 mg/kg/h), produced a MAP decrease of about 25% without significant variations in cardiac frequency or of other monitored parameters.