(ANSA) - TURIN, DECEMBER 27 - He played guitar and tambourine in the operating room, alternating the repertoire proposed by the neuropsychologist with moments of improvisation while he was undergoing surgery on the brain for a tumor. A 35-year-old musician was operated while awake, at the Molinette of the City of Health in Turin, with the 'asleep-awake' technique, which allows a maximum exeresis with minimal risk of permanent neurological deficits by monitoring the patient's functions. The intervention was perfectly successful.
It is not the first time that Professor Diego Garbossa's neurosurgical team - composed by Antonio Melcarne, Matteo Monticelli, Filippo Veneziano Santonio and Pietro Zeppa - uses awake surgery, surgery with a patient awake, to test the 'superior functions' of the human being in the operating room while removing brain injury. In the case of the musician, composer of the band 'LaStanzadiGreta' Alan Brunetta, in addition to saving his life, the intervention has preserved his creative skills.
Sounds while brain operated
2019-12-27T12:56:23.080Z
He played guitar and tambourine in the operating room, alternating the repertoire proposed by the neuropsychologist with moments of improvisation while being operated on the brain for a tumor. (HANDLE)