| Complications of surgery performed through a craniectomy approach include bleeding, swelling of brain tissue resulting in nerve cell damage, wound infection, cranial nerve damage, leakage of the fluid covering the brain (cerebrospinal fluid), and postoperative headache. Air that enters a vein (venous air embolism) can form an air bubble, block off a small vessel, and cause a stroke. Complications of general anesthesia include allergic reaction to the anesthetic agent (anaphylaxis), decreased respiratory rate or effort, airway obstruction, and partial or complete collapse of the lung (atelectasis). A rare but often fatal complication of general anesthesia is a rapid rise in body temperature (malignant hyperthermia). |
Source: Medical Disability Advisor