Factors Influencing Prolonged Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay after Craniotomy for Intracranial Tumor in Children: A 10-year Analysis from a University Hospital.

Background: Postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission is routinely practiced in pediatric and adult craniotomy. This study aims to identify the factors associated with an ICU stay of more than one day (prolonged ICU stay, PIS) after pediatric brain tumor surgery.

Methods: Medical records of children who underwent craniotomy for brain tumor during a 10-year period were reviewed and analyzed.

Continuous physical examination during subcortical resection in awake craniotomy patients: Its usefulness and surgical outcome.

Objectives: To evaluate the value of physical examination as a monitoring tool during subcortical resection in awake craniotomy patients and surgical outcomes.

Patients And Methods: Authors reviewed medical records of patients underwent awake craniotomy with continuous physical examination for pathology adjacent to the eloquent area.

Results: Between January 2006 and August 2015, there were 37 patients underwent awake craniotomy with continuous physical examination.

The Thai Anesthesia Incident Monitoring study (Thai AIMS): perioperative arrhythmia.

Background: The Royal College of Anesthesiologists of Thailand organized the first national sentinel incident reports of anesthesia related adverse events in 2007 on an anonymous and voluntary basis. The aims of the present study were to analyze incidence, risk factors, clinical course and outcome of perioperative arrhythmia and indicate the contributing factors and suggested corrective strategies in the database of the Thai Anesthesia Incidents Monitoring Study (Thai AIMS).

Material And Method: This study was a prospective descriptive multicentered study conducted between January 2007 and June 2007.