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SM Journal of Anesthesia

Frontiers in Anesthesia: Old Acquaintances and New Perspectives in Brain Monitoring of General Anesthesia

[ ISSN : 3068-0891 ]

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Received: 10-Sep-2015

Accepted: 16-Nov-2015

Published: 26-Nov-2015

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Marco Cascella*

Department of Anesthesia, Endoscopy and Cardiology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS - Fondazione G Pascale, Italy

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Marco Cascella, Division of Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia, Endoscopy and Cardiology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori “Fondazione G. Pascale” - IRCCS, Naples, Italy, Tel: + 39 081 5903586; Fax: + 39 081 5903778; Email: m.cascella@istitutotumori.na.it

Keywords

Anesthesia awareness; Brain monitoring; Bispectral index; Electroencephalography

Abstract

Until a few years ago to determine the depth of anesthesia, the anesthetists exploited only a series of physical signs of the patient. In 1994, Sigland Chamoun described a novel measure of the level of consciousness during general anesthesia: the Bispectral (BIS) analysis. It was the beginning of a revolution in anesthesia monitoring, indeed during the last 15-20 years a number of EEG-based technologies have become commercially available. Unfortunately, none of these technologies has definitively solved the problem of the anesthesia awareness, thus assessment of depth of anesthesia is still a serious problem. Through these considerations this work focuses on new perspectives in brain monitoring.

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Cascella M. Frontiers in Anesthesia: Old Acquaintances and New Perspectives in Brain Monitoring of General Anesthesia. SM J Anesth. 2015;1(1):1002.