Monitoring the depth of anaesthesia

Musizza, Bojan (author), Ribarič, Samo (author)

One of the current challenges in medicine is monitoring the patients’ depth of general anaesthesia (DGA). Accurate assessment of the depth of anaesthesia contributes to tailoring drug administration to the individual patient, thus preventing awareness or excessive anaesthetic depth and improving patients’ outcomes. In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of studies on the development, comparison and validation of commercial devices that estimate the DGA by analyzing electrical activity of the brain (i.e., evoked potentials or brain waves). In this paper we review the most frequently used sensors and mathematical methods for monitoring the DGA, their validation in clinical practice and discuss the central question of whether these approaches can, compared to other conventional methods, reduce the risk of patient awareness during surgical procedures.

• Language: English
• Keywords: consciousness, cognitive binding, general anaesthesia monitors, soft sensors, general anaesthesia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: MF - Faculty of Medicine
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2010
• Number of pages: Str. 10896-10935
• Numbering: Vol. 10, iss. 12
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-129635
• UDC: 621.3
• ISSN on article: 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s101210896
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24238887
• Publication date in RUL: 06.09.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sensors
• Shortened title: Sensors
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1424-8220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10176278

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• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
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