Abu Dhabi: A 31-year-old Emirati has successfully undergone ‘awake’ brain surgery to remove a tumour, which also helped eliminated her epileptic episodes. Salha Al Dhaheri was the first patient to receive ‘awake’ neurosurgery, and during the procedure at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), she named objects, read sentences, and counted backwards from 100. This enabled surgeons to ensure that they were resecting (cutting out) the tumour, located to critical areas in the brain, without damaging vital pathways. “It was a very surreal experience to see the doctors operate while also being awake and answering questions. But there was no pain,” Al Dhaheri, a school bus supervisor in Abu Dhabi, sai
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