Monitoring depth of anesthesia.
Devices which monitor some aspect of anesthetic drug effects have evolved in the past few years into imperfect, but very useful, clinical tools. With appropriate respect for their limitations these monitors can be used to reduce anesthetic drug utilization and turnover time. The intriguing hypothesis that such monitors will reduce the risk of intraoperative awareness is currently under test.
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State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794, USA. rampil@anesthes.sunysb.edu