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BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
Volume 86, Issue 3, Pages 354-360Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bja/86.3.354
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brain, electroencephalography; anaesthesia, depth; anaesthetics i.v., thiopental; anaesthetics i.v., propofol; anaesthetics i.v., etomidate; hypnotics benzodiazepine, midazolam; anaesthetics volatile, sevoflurane
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The time course of four EEG effect variables, amplitude in the 2-5 Hz and in the 11-15 Hz band, spectral edge frequency 95% (SEF95), and bispectral index (BIS), in response to increasing concentrations of thiopental, propofol, etomidate, midazolam, or sevoflurane during a 10 min induction of anaesthesia was studied in 25 patients to determine the existence of a biphasic effect and to study the relationship of the EEG effect to the moment of loss of consciousness. A biphasic effect, that is, an initial increase of the effect variable followed by a decrease at higher concentrations, during the transition from consciousness to unconsciousness was found in EEG amplitude (both frequency bands) and in SEF95 for all anaesthetics except midazolam. There was a concentration-related decrease in BIS for all anaesthetics. There was no consistent relationship between the time of occurrence of the peak EEG effect, or the value of the EEG variable and the moment of loss of consciousness. With rapidly changing drug concentrations during the induction of anaesthesia, none of these EEG effect variables could be correlated to the moment of loss of consciousness.
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