Continuity with caveats in anesthesia: state and response entropy of the EEG.

ABSTRACT: The growing use of neuromonitoring in general anesthesia provides detailed insights into the effects of anesthetics on the brain. Our study focuses on the processed EEG indices State Entropy (SE), Response Entropy (RE), and Burst Suppression Ratio (BSR) of the GE Entropy^TM Module, which serve as surrogate measures for estimating the level of anesthesia. While retrospectively analyzing SE and RE index values from patient records, we encountered a technical anomaly with a conspicuous distribution of index values. In this single-center, retrospective study, we analyzed processed intraoperative electroencephalographic (EEG) data from 15,608 patients who underwent general anesthesia. We employed various data visualization techniques, including histograms and heat maps, and fitted cus

SUBMITTER: Ebensperger M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11427563 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature