• A&A practice · Oct 2019

    Case Reports

    Decreasing Frontal Electroencephalogram Alpha Power and Increasing Sensitivity to Volatile Anesthetics Over 3 Surgeries Within 7 Months: A Case Report.

    • Heiko A Kaiser, Trevor Hirschi, Volker Hartwich, Monika Stucki, Christian Rummel, David Reineke, and Darren Hight.
    • From the Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
    • A A Pract. 2019 Oct 1; 13 (7): 274-277.

    AbstractDepth of anesthesia (DoA) monitors are widely used during general anesthesia to guide individualized dosing of hypnotics. Other than age and specific drugs, there are few reports on which comorbidities may influence the brain and the resultant electroencephalogram (EEG) of patients undergoing general anesthesia. We present a case of a patient undergoing 3 cardiac operations within 7 months with severe illness and comorbidity, leading to pronounced physical frailty and significant changes of frontal alpha power in the EEG and increased sensitivity to volatile anesthetics. These findings may have important clinical implications and should trigger further investigations on this topic.

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