The phrase "awake option" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a choice or setting related to being awake, but without context, it is ambiguous and unclear.
Example: "Please select the awake option in the settings menu to enable notifications during the night."
Alternatives: "active choice" or "alert setting".
Recent advances in cannula design and patient selection fosters "awake ambulatory ECMO" as a viable option for critically ill candidates in an attempt to retard deconditioning while awaiting allografts.
We browsed through the caffeine pills and narrowed it down to two options, Stay Awake and Vivarin.
Great care must be taken, and awake intubation may be another option.
Clearly, immobilization of an awake patient is not an option either: apart from possible neural activity induced by stress or other factors associated with lying in the MRI scanner it has to be rejected for ethical reasons, making anesthesia necessary for the clinical use of functional MRI in animals.
Since the extent of tumor resection of malignant glioma is a strong prognosis factor, awake craniotomy should be considered as a therapeutic option for pregnant patients; when the glioma is in or adjacent to the eloquent area.
Awake fibreoptic intubation was offered as the best airway management option, but the patient refused.
Now, Modi et al. have used in vivo imaging in awake mice to obtain evidence in favour of the second option.
In case of an anticipated difficult intubation, other options than the possibility of sugammadex reversal, eg, Awake Fiberoptic Intubation should always be considered first and be available, and the anesthetist trained to perform this.
The preferred options are regional anaesthesia or securing the airway while awake followed by general anaesthesia.
Awake resective surgery with intraoperative brain mapping is an effective and safe treatment option for non-lesional epilepsy involving eloquent areas.
