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Title: Neurometric assessment of intraoperative anesthetic

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OSTI ID:871677

The present invention is a method and apparatus for collecting EEG data, reducing the EEG data into coefficients, and correlating those coefficients with a depth of unconsciousness or anesthetic depth, and which obtains a bounded first derivative of anesthetic depth to indicate trends. The present invention provides a developed artificial neural network based method capable of continuously analyzing EEG data to discriminate between awake and anesthetized states in an individual and continuously monitoring anesthetic depth trends in real-time. The present invention enables an anesthesiologist to respond immediately to changes in anesthetic depth of the patient during surgery and to administer the correct amount of anesthetic.

Research Organization:
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
Patent Number(s):
US 5775330
OSTI ID:
871677
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

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Assessment of depth of general anesthesia: Observations on processed EEG and spectral edge frequency journal August 1994
Bispectrum analysis of EEG of a dog to determine the depth under halothane anesthesia conference January 1993
Anesthetic adequacy, surface EMG and quantitated EEG journal December 1993