The child with burns suffers severe pain at the time of the burn and during subsequent
treatment and rehabilitation. Pain has adverse physiological and emotional effects, and …

BACKGROUND: Oversedation masks neurologic changes and increases mortality/morbidity,
whereas undersedation risks prolonged stress mobilization and patient injury. In situations …

Objective ENTROPY™ is a new anesthetic depth monitor based on the analysis of the EEG
signal. Our aim has been to evaluate sedation of intubated surgical critically ill patients by …

Purpose Monitoring and improving sleep quality may help recovery from major illness.
Polysomnography is a gold standard for measuring sleep quality, but routine use is not …

Tumours close to cerebral cortices involved in motor and language functions represent a
major challenge for neurosurgeons. Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring is useful to …

Background Delirium in hospitalized patients often goes undetected. Cerebral state
monitors, which measure limited-channel electroencephalography, have shown potential for …

OBJECTIVE: This prospective study investigated the risk of respiratory distress in the
patients who were applied nasal packing at the end of nasal surgery; and effects of nasal …

Purpose To determine whether premedication with a β-blocker can bring about a more rapid
and smooth induction of anesthesia, we investigated the effect of oral premedication with …

The bi-dimensional arousal-awareness operational framework of defining consciousness
assumes a graded level of both arousal and awareness. At the lower end of both the arousal …

Expert preoperative evaluation and preparation must occur along with expeditious institution
of a variety of monitoring modalities in order to safely manage the trauma patient during the …