Prevalence of Post-craniotomy Headache in Siriraj Hospital

Mahidol University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Headache; Adult Brain Tumor

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01806155

734/2555(EC2)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Headache after major craniotomy may be a problem in taking care of the patients. The investigators want to identify the incidence of headache after major craniotomy and also the risk factors.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient undergoing major craniotomy

Exclusion criteria

• emergency surgery or traumatic patients
• may need postoperative ventilatory support more than 2 days
• cannot communicate
• psychiatric patients
• chronic use of benzodiazepine or drug abuse
• cannot follow the treatment

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

Craniotomy

Description:

Patient undergoing major craniotomy