 [ Symptoms ] can i have surgery with a stuffy nose i am having lap knee surgery came down with a stuffy nose and sneezing  no fever or cough very congested though can i still have my surgery [ Disease ] the following are the surgical interventions that are performed to control epileptic disorders these procedures can be done directly on the brain resective surgery or corpus callosotomy or by implanting a stimulator of the vagus nerve in the neck vagal nerve stimulation in resective surgery the part of the brain that causes the seizures is removed in corpus callosotomy the major connection between the two sides of the brain is severed cut vagus nerve stimulation is a procedure in which a small wire is attached to the vagus nerve in the neck this wire is used to electrically stimulate the vagus nerve