An injury to central and peripheral nervous system can lead to permanent impairment. As such, adverse neurological outcomes of surgery and anaesthesia can be devastating for patients and their families. There is neither a temporary alternative to innate neurological function as there is with other organs like kidney, heart, liver, lungs, or skeletal system. This article highlights some of the neurological complications that are witnessed in the perioperative period.
Neurological injury during the course of surgery can be distressing to patients and their families. Notwithstanding with the importance of central and peripheral nervous systems, there can be certain neurological complications during perioperative period. This challenging situation arises when there is no standard to monitor neural structures during surgery and anaesthesia. This gap in clinical care is even more striking by…
