Electroencephalographic monitoring during general anesthesia.
This paper presents a concise review of the recent advances in the field of electroencephalographic monitoring during administration of general anesthetics. It presents the history and background of this technique and describes the principles of electroencephalographic monitoring and its mathematical analysis. It concludes with a discussion of the techniques currently available for the display of the electroencephalogram as a monitoring tool and describes current clinical applications.
D000766:Anesthesia, Dental; D000768:Anesthesia, General; D003626:Data Display; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D010600:Pharmacology