Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111003_Ansell_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110124_ImageFirst_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120201_Provation_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120426_PDI_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Las Vegas GI Doc Facing 28 Felony Counts in Hep C Case

Las Vegas physician Dipak Desai, MD, will face all 28 felony charges filed against him for allegedly exposing patients to hepatitis C, according to ...

New Device Helps Obese Patients Breathe Easier

Rice University engineering students have come up with a novel approach for lifting the excess abdomen weight that can hamper obese patients' breath...

How Effective are Your Infection Prevention Efforts?

Are your infection prevention efforts up to speed? It's generally advisable to find out before a site surveyor from a regulating or accrediting agen...

Archive >  Ambulatory Anesthesia 2007

What's Your Consciousness Telling You?

Get your patients as close as possible to pre-procedure status immediately after surgery.

Colletta A. Richards, MD

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.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Anesthesia, Safety
Keywords:
The sensation deprivation spectrum; Mind readers; On the Web; Walking the line; Accurately; Achieving; Alertness/Sedation Scale; Analyzer; Assessment; BIS; Consciousness; Developed; Drugs; EEG; Ensuring; Fourth; General; Guedel's; Index; Local; Maintaining; Medical; Medical). Sensors; Middle-latency; Monitors; PSI; Parkinson's; Patient; Recently; SNAP; Scale; Sensors; Sensory; State Analyzer; Web Download; abdominal; ability; abolish; activity; adjustments; affect; agents; algorithm; allowing; alveolar; amplitude; analgesic; analysis; anesthesia; anesthetic; antagonists; anxiety; appropriately... show all keywords
The sensation deprivation spectrum; Mind readers; On the Web; Walking the line; Accurately; Achieving; Alertness/Sedation Scale; Analyzer; Assessment; BIS; Consciousness; Developed; Drugs; EEG; Ensuring; Fourth; General; Guedel's; Index; Local; Maintaining; Medical; Medical). Sensors; Middle-latency; Monitors; PSI; Parkinson's; Patient; Recently; SNAP; Scale; Sensors; Sensory; State Analyzer; Web Download; abdominal; ability; abolish; activity; adjustments; affect; agents; algorithm; allowing; alveolar; amplitude; analgesic; analysis; anesthesia; anesthetic; antagonists; anxiety; appropriately; art; assess; assessment; auditory; awareness; based; beta-blockers; bispectral; bites; blending; body; breathing; burst; calculated; calculation; cardiovascular; challenge; channel; clinical; combination; comfortable; component; concentration; concern; condense; conscious; consciousness; considered; continues; correlation; deal; decreasing; define; demands; dependent; deprivation; depth; derivation; description; desired; determine; developed; developing; difficult; directly; disease; distress; distribution; documented; dopamine; dosing; drug; dynamic; effect; electroencephalograph; electroencephalographic; emphasize; end; engenders; enhance; ensure; entire; evening; evoked; excited; eye; eyelash; eyelid; facilities; feelings; follow; frequency; frequent; function; general; generally; great; high; high-profile; higher; hypnosis; hypnotic; immediately; inability; incidence; include; increase; increasing; index; indicating; individual; information; inhalational; inherent; insensate; intraoperative; intravenous; irregular; larger; level; limited; local; loss; low; main; major; makes; measure; measuring; media; minimum; mitigate; mitigating; monitoring; monitors; movement; multi-center; multivariate; muscle; nervousness; normal; notion; noxious; numbing; numerical; objective; observation; occurring; offset; outcomes; outpatient; over-the-counter; pain; painful; papillary; paralysis; patient; patients; pattern; patterns; percent; perform; periodic; perioperative; phenomenon; physical; physiologically; planes; plasma; portion; positive; post-traumatic; potentials; power; practice; practitioners; pre-procedure; prescription; prevent; procedure; process; progresses; progressive; proposed; provide; providers; psychiatric; quantitative; quick; quickest; range; rate; raw; readily; realized; reasons; receptor; references; reflex; regional; relying; renders; reported; require; requiring; respiratory; respond; responding; responds; response; restricted; result; resulting; return; reversible; risk; safe; scale; science; score; sedate; sedation; sensation; shown; significant; signs; single; site; sits; situation; size; sound; spatial; spectral; spectrum; spoken; spontaneous; stable; stage; standardized; state; states; status; stimuli; stress; subcategories; subdivided; support; suppress; suppression; surgery; target; titrate; titration; today's; tool; transform; trapezius; trends; ultimate; unconscious; unconsciousness; uninhibited; universal; unreliable; values; varies; vomiting; waveform; weakness

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120508_ORX_AR-300x250.gif
Other Articles That May Interest You
Joint Commission Issues Alert on Healthcare Worker Fatigue
Organization suggests actions to reduce patient safety risks
Anesthesiologist Cleared of Wrongdoing In Patient Death
Jury decides LMA intubation met standard of care.
Are You Prepared for Malignant Hyperthermia?
Experts urge evaluation of resources, coordination of transfer strategies.