Dexamethasone Use in Perioperative Neuroscience : Boon or Bane, or Both?

• Main Authors: Samuel Tsan, Ern Hung, Judith, Dinsmore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. 2023
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RD Surgery
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42804/3/Dexamethasone%20-%20Copy.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42804/; https://journals.lww.com/jnsa/fulltext/2023/10000/dexamethasone_use_in_perioperative_neuroscience_.2.aspx
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Dexamethasone is a synthetic corticosteroid that acts almost exclusively on glucocorticoid receptors. Its purported benefits are wide-ranging, and its use in neurosurgery and neuroanesthesia is ubiquitous. The ability of dexamethasone to reduce peritumoral cerebral edema was heralded as “one of t...