Craniotomy Informative Speech

S.P. should be up out of bed post-op day 1 and wearing TED hose continuously, as well as wearing SCDs overnight in bed. Constipation prevention should e achieved by administering scheduled doses of Colace. Proper nutrition should be encouraged to include plenty of protein to ensure proper wound healing and avoid development of pressure ulcers (Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, Bucher, & Camera, 2011). S.P. should practice coughing and deep breathing throughout her hospital stay to avoid lung congestion and occurrence of pneumonia infection, educating the patient about smoking cessation assistance can be helpful as well.

Then, a long hook is inserted into the nose to smash the brain and pull it out the same way.

The surgical technologist can chose to specialize in neurology. Neurosurgery is one of the most sophisticated specialties with its advanced surgical procedures. The nervous system entails the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and the structures around them. The procedures can be anything from congenial defects, traumatic injury, and cancers. An example of neurosurgery is the craniotomy. This involves an incision of the cranium so the surgeon can access the brain. Cranioplasty is a procedure that repairs defects in the skull. This procedure is done to relieve headaches, and to prevent secondary injury to the brain (AST, 2014, pp 1142-1149).

Remove the skin from the skull and back and cut open the bone to expose the central nervous system

Prophylaxis measures are taken to prevent infection of a surgical patient. These include administration of antibiotics one hour before the initial surgical incision, and discontinue the antibiotics within twenty-four hours. The final guideline states that proper hair removal of a surgical site includes the use of clippers and not shaving. The reasoning for this is that shaving can leave microscopic cuts on the skin, which would increase the risk for infection (Watson, 2009).

Skulls dating back to the 1000s CE were found with man-made holes in them, being the first pieces of evidence of brain surgery. Most of the skulls from this time showed no signs of bone repair, meaning that surgery must have been fatal at one point. (National Geographic 2008) The development of brain surgery took place over the next 400 years, showing an immense amount of improvement in the procedure. The most recent skulls found by archeologists demonstrated many signs of bone repair, and researchers even discovered that bone surgery went from being fatal to have a 90% success rate in the 1400s (National Geographic 2008).

Sterilize and prepare the patient's genital area. You have wipe the patient's genital area with disinfectant soaked cotton swabs, to remove any debris. Repeat step if needed. For female patients, be sure to clean the labia and urethral meatus (the outside of the opening of the urethra located above the vagina). For the men clean the urethral opening on the penis. When you finish wiping down the patient, lay down surgical drapes around the genitals, leaving yourself enough work

Create a dorsal flap in the carapace by making two lateral cuts extending along each side of the thorax and forward the head, meeting just behind the eyes.

This sheet gives you information about how to care for yourself after your procedure. Your health care provider may also give you more specific instructions. If you have problems or questions, contact your health care provider.

When you schedule your procedure, your doctor should give you a set of instructions. If they do not, ask for them. If they do not offer instructions, find a different doctor. You need to know what exactly the doctor's orders are for you to prep your skin for the procedure.

The beginning of this chapter starts with Neil Shubin dissecting a human skull and examining the essential nerves that are a part of the head. To examine these nerves Shubin had to cut apart a skull to look inside. As Shubin continues he describes 3 separate components to a skull, the plates, the blocks, and the rods. The structures he calls plates can be found on the top of the skull, and they protect the brain. In infants, these plates aren’t connected, and are separate pieces with spaces in between called fontanelles. As an infant grows the plates start to merge and fit together similar to jigsaw pieces in a puzzle. By the age of 2, infants plates should be completely fused together as a single piece. The next part of the skull that Shubin

After a surgery has taken place, laboratory technicians will soak and wash the used equipment in cold water mixed with Gain antibacterial soap. Once scrubbed with soapy water, the technician rinses the clean instruments under cold water to remove the suds. Next, they will lay the tools out on a small towel in order for them to dry. While drying, the technician will walk to the back of the clinic to cut a new drape.

The chest organs, including the heart and lungs, are inspected. After any organ is removed, the pathologist will save a section in preservative solution. The pathologist takes blood from the heart to check for bacteria in the blood. For this, he uses a very large hypodermic needle and syringe. He may also find something else that will need to be sent to the microbiology lab to search for infection. The pathologist will send blood, urine, bile, or even the fluid of the eye for chemical study and to look for medicine, street drugs, alcohols, and/or poisons. After the chest has been examine the abdominal cavity is inspected, the first dissection in the abdomen is usually freeing up the large intestine. Some pathologist do this with a scalpel, while others use scissors. Freeing up the intestines takes some time. The intestines and other organs in the abdominal cavity are taken out an examine for any abnormalities, drugs, poisons, and diseases . Once the chest and the abdominal cavity is examine , the scalp is examine, the skull vault is opened using two saw cuts, one in front and one in back. The top of the skull is removed and the brain is very carefully cut free of its attachments from inside the skull, inspecting the brain often revels surprises. a good pathologist takes some time to do this as well with the other organs.

During a boring and cutting trephining, the cuts are made with a crown-saw called trephine. The skull gets two holes cut within it. The area between the two holes are then chiseled or cut out (htt).

Most often, the tumor is removed through the nasal cavity. Rarely, if the tumor is large or has spread to nearby brain tissue, the surgeon will access the tumor through an opening in the skull.