Monitoring (un)consciousness: The implications of a new definition of 'anaesthesia'

Anaesthesia

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 801-807

  Pandit, J J ^a,b  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE AWARENESS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

CONSCIOUSNESS MONITORS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE;

EID: 84904257937     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.12668     Document Type: Review

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