Prevention of intraoperative awareness in a high-risk surgical population

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 591-600

  Avidan, Michael S ^a   Jacobsohn, Eric ^b   Glick, David ^c   Burnside, Beth A ^a   Zhang, Lini ^a   Villafranca, Alex ^b   Karl, Leah ^c   Kamal, Saima ^a   Torres, Brian ^a   O'Connor, Michael ^c   Evers, Alex S ^a   Gradwohl, Stephen ^a   Lin, Nan ^a   Palanca, Ben J ^a   Mashour, George A ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DESFLURANE; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; SEVOFLURANE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BISPECTRAL INDEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 84860389403     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1100403     Document Type: Article

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