Prevention of awareness during anaesthesia

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-355

  Myles, Paul S ^a,b,c  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (Australia)

Author keywords

bispectral index; clinical trials; entropy; evidence; evoked potentials; monitoring; patient safety

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; HYPNOTIC AGENT; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHETIC AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; PROPOFOL; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SHORT ACTING DRUG;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANESTHESIST; AWARENESS; BISPECTRAL INDEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; MINIMUM LUNG ALVEOLUS CONCENTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; AWARENESS; BENZODIAZEPINES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOVEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 34547559805     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.04.004     Document Type: Review

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