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Research results from Y. Sawaguchi and colleagues update understanding of anesthesia

Published in Blood Weekly, April 10th, 2008

A report, 'A model-predictive hypnosis control system under total intravenous anesthesia,' is newly published data in IEEE Transactions On Biomedical Engineering. According to a study from Chiba, Japan, "In ambulatory surgery, anesthetic drugs must be administered at a suitable rate to prevent adverse reactions after discharge from the hospital. To realize more appropriate anesthesia, we have developed a hypnosis control system, which administers propofol as an anesthetic drug to regulate the bispectral index (BIS), an electroencephalography (EEG)-derived index reflecting the hypnosis of a patient."

"This system consists of three functions: 1) a feedback...

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