Consciousness monitors have two jobs. The first is to prevent awareness for patients under general anesthesia. The second is to titrate anesthetics to "just-right" levels, enough to sedate the patient while also allowing for a quick emergence. As they say, less is sometimes more when it comes to anesthesia. Despite sound bites from the evening news, there's still no support for the notion that monitors prevent intraoperative awareness.1 Monitors can, however, enhance clinical signs of consciousness and help with depth of anesthesia trends that ensure safe outcomes with the quickest possible recovery.