Usually, patients do not need to enter the intensive care unit after cranial repair, but if there is brain tissue damage, large amount of bleeding or other accidents during the operation, they need to enter the intensive care unit for observation after the operation.
Cranial bone repair surgery usually does not directly contact the brain tissue, generally will not damage the intracranial nerves and blood vessels, after the operation, the patient can return to the general ward after anesthesia awake, timely cardiac and electrical monitoring, and pay close attention to the patient’s vital signs can be.
If the patient has other accidents during the operation, such as damage to the brain tissue, or the tolerance of anesthesia drugs is relatively poor, after stopping the use of anesthesia drugs can not wake up in a timely manner, the vital signs are not stable, there is no spontaneous respiration, high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia and so on, the patient needs to be admitted to the intensive care unit to receive further treatment, the specific details of which can be consulted with a professional physician’s opinion.