Alerting thresholds for the prevention of intraoperative awareness with explicit recall: a secondary analysis of the Michigan Awareness Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intraoperative awareness with explicit recall is a potentially devastating complication of surgery that has been attributed to low anaesthetic concentrations in the vast majority of cases. Past studies have proposed the determination of an adequate dose for general anaesthetics that could be used to alert providers of potentially insufficient anaesthesia. However, there have been no systematic analyses of appropriate thresholds to develop population-based alerting algorithms for preventing intraoperative awareness.

Objective

To identify a threshold for intraoperative alerting that could be applied for the prevention of awareness with explicit recall.

Design

Secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial (Michigan Awareness Control Study).

Setting

SUBMITTER: Shanks AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4737525 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature