• Victoria Windmann, Claudia Spies, Emery N Brown, Devika Kishnan, Gregor Lichtner, Susanne Koch, and BioCog Study Group.
• Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
• Clin Neurophysiol. 2019 Sep 1; 130 (9): 1673-1681.

ObjectiveTo investigate the influence of midazolam premedication on the EEG-spectrum before and during general anesthesia in elderly patients.MethodsPatients aged ≥65 years, undergoing elective surgery were included in this prospective observational study. A continuous pre- and intraoperative frontal EEG was recorded in patients who received premedication with midazolam (Mid, n = 15) and patients who did not (noMid, n = 30). Absolute power within the delta (0.5-4 Hz), theta (4-8 Hz), alpha (8-12 Hz), and beta (12-25 Hz) frequency-bands was analyzed in EEG-sections before (pre-induction), and after induction of anesthesia with propofol (post-induction), as well as during general anesthesia with either propofol or volatile-anesthetics (intra-operative).ResultsPre-induction, α-power of Mid patients was lower compared with noMid-patients (α-power: Mid: -10.75 dB vs. noMid: -9.20 dB; p = 0.036). After induction of anesthesia Mid-patients displayed a stronger increase of frontal α-power resulting in higher absolute α-power at post-induction state, (α-power: Mid -3.56 dB vs. noMid: -6.69 dB; p = 0.004), which remained higher intraoperatively (α-power: Mid: -2.12 dB vs. noMid: -6.10 dB; p = 0.024).ConclusionMidazolam premedication alters the intraoperative EEG-spectrum in elderly patients.SignificanceThis finding provides further evidence for the role of GABAergic activation in the induction of elevated, frontal α-power during general anesthesia.Trial Registry NumberNCT02265263. 23 September 2014. Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Spies. (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02265263).Copyright © 2019 International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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