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Postperfusion syndrome, also known as "pumphead", is a constellation of neurocognitive impairments attributed to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) during cardiac surgery. ...
Baby Has $5 Million Surgery to Remove Left Side of Brain at Just 4 Weeks Old. Now He's Waiting for the Next One (Exclusive) Hannah Sacks. December 17, 2024 at 4:00 AM.
Hemispherectomy is a surgery that is performed by a neurosurgeon where an unhealthy hemisphere of the brain is disconnected or removed. There are two types of hemispherectomy. Functional hemispherectomy refers to when the diseased brain is simply disconnected so that it can no longer send signals to the rest of the brain and body.
To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.
Surgeons at the Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge successfully operated on a man to remove a parasitic tapeworm. A British man was treated for a brain condition of science fiction proportions-the ...
The method of removal of part of the brain was termed "experimental ablation". With the use of experimental ablation, Flourens claimed to find the area of the brain that controlled heart rate and breathing. [3] Ablative brain surgery is also often used as a research tool in neurobiology. For example, by ablating specific brain regions and ...
In the hospital, the blood pressure can be increased in order to increase CPP, increase perfusion, oxygenate tissues, remove wastes, and thereby lessen swelling. [32] Since hypertension is the body's way of forcing blood into the brain, medical professionals do not normally interfere with it when it is found in a person with a head injury. [6]
The 49-year-old Australian woman had seizures for years. Then a brain implant made them stop.