Anesthesia

Findings from Charite University in anesthesia reported

Published in Biotech Business Week, August 11th, 2008

"Monitors of hypnotic depth help anesthesiologists to guide the anesthetic. The performance of different monitors depends on several factors, index variability at a steady state of hypnotic depth being one," scientists in Berlin, Germany report.

"We compared the recently introduced AAI1.6 with the established bispectral index (BIS), regarding index variability during stable values of propofol effect-site concentration. After ethics committee approval and written informed consent, anesthesia was performed in 40 patients with propofol as the target controlled infusion and fentanyl. Variability of 131 and AAI1.6 was calculated during periods of constant predicted propofol...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2008-08-11)

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