On July 15, Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine performed its second-ever awake kidney transplant. The patient was a 74-year-old man, who left the hospital after 36 hours. He shared his experience in ...

Awake brain surgery is a safe and effective treatment for several brain conditions. Although it may be intimidating for a person to be awake during brain surgery, this is often an essential part of ...

If you want surgery and DON'T qualify for general anesthesia, or just have fears about general anesthesia, there's one doctor you can rely on and that's Dr. Meegan Gruber. Dr. Gruber has been a ...

Dr. Ernest Braxton, a neurosurgeon at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery, introduced a breakthrough procedure at Vail Health by completing a successful spine surgery with his patient awake. The ...

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