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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MONITORING AND COMPUTING
卷 23, 期 5, 页码 273-277出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-009-9193-9
关键词
intraoperative awareness; anesthesia awareness; awareness during general anesthesia; minimum alveolar concentration; anesthesia information management system
资金
- Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
Objective. A recent clinical trial compared a minimum alveolar concentration (MAC)-based protocol to an electroencephalography (EEG)-based protocol for the prevention of intraoperative awareness. One limitation of this study design is that MAC-based protocols are not sensitive to the use of intravenous agents, while EEG-based protocols are. Our objective was to develop a MAC alert that incorporates intravenous agents. Methods. We developed an electronic algorithm and alerting system that calculates a total age-adjusted MAC value based on inhalational agents, but also incorporates intravenous agents. We retrospectively applied the algorithm to adult general anesthesia cases over a 1 year period to assess the frequency of alert triggers, using thresholds of < 0.8, < 0.7, < 0.6, < 0.5 and < 0.4 age-adjusted MAC. We also electronically analyzed 12 cases of intraoperative awareness that occurred over a 4-year period for the frequency of alert triggers using the same thresholds. Finally, we calculated positive and negative likelihood ratios based on these analyses. Results. Over a 1-year period we identified 15,091 cases without self-reported awareness that were valid for analysis. At all age-adjusted MAC thresholds, the incidence of triggered alerts was higher in the awareness cases. The threshold of < 0.8 age-adjusted MAC was associated with the highest negative likelihood ratio; the < 0.5 age-adjusted MAC was associated with the highest positive likelihood ratio. Conclusions. Our novel electronic alerting system incorporates both age-adjusted MAC and intravenous anesthesia, and triggers with a higher frequency in cases of awareness. These data suggest the potential for our system to alert clinicians to insufficient anesthesia.
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