[Use of regional anesthetic methods in neurosurgery].

The paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of using locoregional anesthesia (LRA) modes (a combination of local anesthesia and regional blockade) in neurosurgical patients with intracranial, spine, and spinal cord occlusive cerebrovascular disease and lesions during transnasosphenoidal interventions. LRA is now an effective and frequently indispensable component of anesthetic management during neurosurgical interventions.

[Waking-up anesthesiology ward at a neurosurgery clinic: annual report].

The structure and main annual indices of the waking-up anesthesiology ward, Anesthesiology Department, Burdenko's Research Institute of Neurosurgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, are addressed in the paper. Outfit, personal structure and the spectrum of the prevailing neurosurgery pathology related with the above ward functioning as well as the reasons due to which the patients are transferred to intensive care are under discussion.

[Compression of the inferior cerebellar artery-induced compression of the medulla oblongata in Arnold-Chiari malformation as a cause of essential hypertension].

Cerebrovascular abnormalities (primarily looping of cerebellar arteries) are almost without exception concurrent with the Arnold-Chiari syndrome and hydrocephalus. Persistent essential hypertension may be a manifestation of pathological vessel-brain contact. Customary microvascular decompression may lead to blood pressure stabilization in the postoperative period for a long time.