BACKGROUND Pain assessment is an immense challenge for clinicians, especially in the context of the intensive care unit, where the patient is often unable to communicate verbally. Several methods of pain assessment have been proposed to assess pain in this environment. These include both behavioural observation scales and evaluation of physiological measurements such as heart rate and blood pre...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The reliability of the Bispectral Index for evaluating and monitoring the depth of general anaesthesia in children is not as great as for that in adults. Therefore we analysed Bispectral Index performance in children by comparing changes in Bispectral Index values during a standardized and equipotent anaesthetic regimen using either halothane or sevoflurane for the indu...

n engl j med 359;4 www.nejm.org july 24, 2008 431 Pavlin JD, Souter KJ, Hong JY, Freund PR, Bowdle TA, Bower 1. JO. Effects of bispectral index monitoring on recovery from surgical anesthesia in 1,580 inpatients from an academic medical center. Anesthesiology 2005;102:566-73. Lindholm ML, Brudin L, Sandin RH. Bispectral index moni2. toring: appreciated but does not affect drug dosing and hypnot...

INTRODUCTION Modern hospital pharmacology insists on assessing each patient's individual characteristics because of their influence on drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic effect. The study was aimed at evaluating anesthetic doses in patients with benign larynx tumors treated by general endotracheal anesthesia during endoscopic surgery procedures. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study is a part...

1. Rosow C, Manberg PJ: Bispectral Index Monitoring. Anesthesiology Clinics of North America: Ann Anesth Pharmacol 1998; 2:89–107 2. Glass P, Bloom M, Kearse L, Rosow C, Sebel P, Manberg P: Bispectral analysis measures sedation and memory effects of propofol, midazolam, isoflurane, and alfenanil in healthy volunteers. ANESTHESIOLOGY 1997; 86:836–47 3. England MR, Murphy MC, Court M: How much is...

As we were interested in the use of bispectral index (BIS) monitoring during the application of acupuncture, we conducted a PubMed search on 31 July 2012 using the keywords ‘acupuncture’ and ‘bispectral index’. This yielded 23 articles reporting the use of BIS during evaluation of the effects of acupuncture. Except for the paper by Zheng et al recently published in this journal, none of these a...