Guidelines for Awake Surgery
Guidelines Committee of the Japan Awake Surgery Conference
Abstract
eration of Neurosurgical Societies (President, Prof. Heros: Harvard Univ.) in Boston for the first time in 2009 and published it as the "Guidelines for awake surgery (Japanese, English)" in 2013.Subsequently, there were various advances, especially in brain science, linguistics, cognitive science, anesthesiology, brain oncology, and surgical methods.The steering committee members, Japan Awake Surgery Conference, started working on a revision, and the 2 nd version of the Guidelines for Awake Surgery, "Guidelines for Awake Surgery," was published last year.I thank all the members responsible for working on the guidelines.The present guidelines were prepared by discussing/reviewing matters considered the best in clinical practice by the guideline-preparing committee because conducting a clinical trial for medical devices is diffi-