In less than an hour, a 60-year-old woman from Abruzzo, but residing on the border with the Marche region, prepared 90 olives in the Ascoli area while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor in the left temporal lobe, an area assigned and organization of language and complex movements of the right side of the body, in the Azienda Ospedali Riuniti of Ancona. "Everything went well," said Dr. ANSA. Roberto Trignani, head of the Department of Neurosurgery, at the end of the operation which lasted a total of two and a half hours and which involved 11 people including neurosurgeons, neuroanesthesiologists, nurses, a psychologist, a technician of neurophysiology. Trignani carried out approximately 60 interventions in five years in 'awake' mode with the patient awake and engaged in other activities: "a method that allows us to monitor the patient while we work on brain functions and to" calibrate "our action". The packaging of the stuffed olives is only the latest in a series of activities carried out by patients and chosen according to the area of the brain to be operated, but also according to individual habits: the trumpet or violin played example. In Ancona, a patient operated on in the area who supervises the view while watching cartoons. (HANDLE).
Woman prepares olives to the ascoli during brain operation
2020-06-10T16:13:36.062Z
In less than an hour, a 60-year-old woman from Abruzzo, but residing on the border with the Marche region, packed 90 olives in the Ascoli area while undergoing brain surgery to remove a tumor in the left temporal lobe, an area assigned to ... (ANSA)