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Aasheim A, Rosseland LA, Leonardsen ACL, Romundstad L. Depth of anesthesia monitoring in Norway-A web-based survey. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2024; 68:781-787. [PMID: 38551019 DOI: 10.1111/aas.14420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2023] [Revised: 01/16/2024] [Accepted: 03/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND The bispectral index (BIS) monitor is the most frequently used electroencephalogram (EEG)-based depth of anesthesia (DoA) technology in Norwegian hospitals. However, there is limited knowledge regarding the extent and clinical impact of its use and how anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists use the information provided by the DoA monitors in their clinical practice. METHODS This cross-sectional survey on the use of DoA monitors in Norway used a web-based questionnaire distributed to anesthesia personnel in all hospitals in Norway. Participation was voluntary and anonymized, and the web form could not track IP sources or respondents' locations. RESULTS Three hundred and ninety-one nurse anesthetists (n = 324) and anesthesiologists (n = 67) responded. Among the EEG-based DoA monitoring tools, BIS was most often used to observe and assess patients' DoA (98%). Raw EEG waveform analysis (10%), EEG-spectrogram (9%), and suppression rate (10%) were seldom used. Twenty-seven percent of the anesthesia personnel were able to recognize a burst suppression pattern on EEG and its significance. Fifty-eight percent of the respondents considered clinical observations more reliable than BIS. Almost all respondents reported adjusting anesthetic dosage based on the BIS index values (80%). However, the anesthetic dose was more often increased (90%) because of high BIS index values than lowered (55%) because of low BIS index values. CONCLUSION Despite our respondents' extensive use of DoA monitoring, the anesthesia personnel in our survey did not use all the information and the potential to guide the titration of anesthetics the DoA monitors provide. Thus, anesthesia personnel could generally benefit from increased knowledge of how EEG-based DoA monitoring can be used to assess and determine individual patients' need for anesthetic medication.
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- Anders Aasheim
- Department of Research and Development, Division of Emergencies and Critical care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Research and Development, Division of Emergencies and Critical care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nursing, Health and Bioengineering, University of Southeastern Norway, Fredrikstad, Norway
- Department of Anesthesia, Østfold Hospital Trust, Kalnes, Norway
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- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care medicine, Division of Emergencies and Critical care, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- Lovisenberg Diaconal University College, Oslo, Norway
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Han C, Kim HI, Soh S, Choi JW, Song JW, Yoon D. Machine learning with clinical and intraoperative biosignal data for predicting postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery. iScience 2024; 27:109932. [PMID: 38799563 PMCID: PMC11126810 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2023] [Revised: 02/25/2024] [Accepted: 05/05/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Early identification of patients at high risk of delirium is crucial for its prevention. Our study aimed to develop machine learning models to predict delirium after cardiac surgery using intraoperative biosignals and clinical data. We introduced a novel approach to extract relevant features from continuously measured intraoperative biosignals. These features reflect the patient's overall or baseline status, the extent of unfavorable conditions encountered intraoperatively, and beat-to-beat variability within the data. We developed a soft voting ensemble machine learning model using retrospective data from 1,912 patients. The model was then prospectively validated with data from 202 additional patients, achieving a high performance with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.887 and an accuracy of 0.881. According to the SHapley Additive exPlanation method, several intraoperative biosignal features had high feature importance, suggesting that intraoperative patient management plays a crucial role in preventing delirium after cardiac surgery.
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- Changho Han
- Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin, Republic of Korea
- Center for Digital Health, Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Yongin, Republic of Korea
- Institute for Innovation in Digital Healthcare (IIDH), Severance Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Ramachandran RV, Ananthakrishnan A, Orui H, Kveraga K, Subramaniam B. The Influence of Preoperative Physical Activity on Intraoperative Brain Function in Cardiac Surgical patients. RESEARCH SQUARE 2024:rs.3.rs-4427122. [PMID: 38883767 PMCID: PMC11178032 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4427122/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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Background Preoperative physical activity and intraoperative brain health are recognized to influence postoperative delirium (POD). Electroencephalogram (EEG) burst suppression and cerebral desaturation are indicators of abnormal intraoperative brain health. Our study aimed to investigate the associations between preoperative physical activity and intraoperative EEG burst suppression and cerebral desaturation. Methods We retrospectively analyzed data from 67 patients from one of the institutions participating in a multisite randomized controlled trial, PANDORA, involving patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The preoperative PCS12 score calculated using the SF12 questionnaire was used as an indicator of preoperative physical activity. Intraoperative EEG and cerebral oximetry data (not the current standard of care in this facility) were collected, and the anesthesiologists were blinded to the information. We analyzed the following associations between the PCS12 score and i) burst suppression duration, ii) the number of cerebral desaturations, and iii) the number of observations with concurrent cerebral desaturation and burst suppression using a generalized linear model. The results are presented as percentage changes in outcomes, and a 95% C.I. p value < 0.05 was considered to indicate statistical significance. Results Each unit increase in the PCS12 score was associated with a 3.3% decrease in the duration of burst suppression (-3.3 [-5.3, -1.2], p value = 0.002). The duration of burst suppression decreased by 29.2% with each successive quartile increase in the PCS-12 score, indicating a dose‒response relationship (-29.2 [-41.6, -16], p < 0.001). Specifically, the patients in the last three quartiles exhibited a 55.4% reduction in BSD compared to those in the first quartile (-55.4 [-74.4, -24.6], p = 0.002) (Fig. 2). We did not observe any significant association between the PCS12 score and cerebral desaturation. Conclusion Decreased preoperative physical activity, as measured by the SF-12 questionnaire, is significantly associated with increased EEG burst suppression duration. Preoperative physical activity did not show any association with cerebral desaturations and concurrent cerebral desaturation and burst suppression. Clinical Trial information ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier- NCT04093219 https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04093219 Principal Investigator - Balachundhar Subramaniam Date of registration - September 13, 2019.
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Yuan I, Bong CL, Chao JY. Intraoperative pediatric electroencephalography monitoring: an updated review. Korean J Anesthesiol 2024; 77:289-305. [PMID: 38228393 PMCID: PMC11150110 DOI: 10.4097/kja.23843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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Intraoperative electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring under pediatric anesthesia has begun to attract increasing interest, driven by the availability of pediatric-specific EEG monitors and the realization that traditional dosing methods based on patient movement or changes in hemodynamic response often lead to imprecise dosing, especially in younger infants who may experience adverse events (e.g., hypotension) due to excess anesthesia. EEG directly measures the effects of anesthetics on the brain, which is the target end-organ responsible for inducing loss of consciousness. Over the past ten years, research on anesthesia and computational neuroscience has improved our understanding of intraoperative pediatric EEG monitoring and expanded the utility of EEG in clinical practice. We now have better insights into neurodevelopmental changes in the developing pediatric brain, functional connectivity, the use of non-proprietary EEG parameters to guide anesthetic dosing, epileptiform EEG changes during induction, EEG changes from spinal/regional anesthesia, EEG discontinuity, and the use of EEG to improve clinical outcomes. This review article summarizes the recent literature on EEG monitoring in perioperative pediatric anesthesia, highlighting several of the topics mentioned above.
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- Ian Yuan
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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Likhvantsev VV, Berikashvili LB, Smirnova AV, Polyakov PA, Yadgarov MY, Gracheva ND, Romanova OE, Abramova IS, Shemetova MM, Kuzovlev AN. Intraoperative electroencephalogram patterns as predictors of postoperative delirium in older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Front Aging Neurosci 2024; 16:1386669. [PMID: 38803541 PMCID: PMC11128674 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2024.1386669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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Background Postoperative delirium (POD) significantly affects patient outcomes after surgery, leading to increased morbidity, extended hospital stays, and potential long-term cognitive decline. This study assessed the predictive value of intraoperative electroencephalography (EEG) patterns for POD in adults. Methods This systematic review and meta-analysis followed the PRISMA and Cochrane Handbook guidelines. A thorough literature search was conducted using PubMed, Medline, and CENTRAL databases focusing on intraoperative native EEG signal analysis in adult patients. The primary outcome was the relationship between the burst suppression EEG pattern and POD development. Results From the initial 435 articles identified, 19 studies with a total of 7,229 patients were included in the systematic review, with 10 included in the meta-analysis (3,705 patients). In patients exhibiting burst suppression, the POD incidence was 22.1% vs. 13.4% in those without this EEG pattern (p=0.015). Furthermore, an extended burst suppression duration associated with a higher likelihood of POD occurrence (p = 0.016). Interestingly, the burst suppression ratio showed no significant association with POD. Conclusions This study revealed a 41% increase in the relative risk of developing POD in cases where a burst suppression pattern was present. These results underscore the clinical relevance of intraoperative EEG monitoring in predicting POD in older patients, suggesting its potential role in preventive strategies. Systematic Review Registration This study was registered on International Platform for Registered Protocols for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: INPLASY202420001, https://doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2024.2.0001.
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- Valery V. Likhvantsev
- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
- Department of Anesthesiology, First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Anesthesiology, City Clinical Oncological Hospital No. 1, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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- Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Department of Clinical Trials, Moscow, Russia
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Shang Z, Jiang Y, Fang P, Zhu W, Guo J, Li L, Liang Y, Zhang S, Ma S, Mei B, Fan Y, Xie Z, Shen Q, Liu X. The Association of Preoperative Diabetes With Postoperative Delirium in Older Patients Undergoing Major Orthopedic Surgery: A Prospective Matched Cohort Study. Anesth Analg 2024; 138:1031-1042. [PMID: 38335150 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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BACKGROUND Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common form of postoperative brain dysfunction, especially in the elderly. However, its risk factors remain largely to be determined. This study aimed to investigate whether (1) preoperative diabetes is associated with POD after elective orthopedic surgery and (2) intraoperative frontal alpha power is a mediator of the association between preoperative diabetes and POD. METHODS This was a prospective matched cohort study of patients aged 60 years or more, with a preoperative diabetes who underwent elective orthopedic surgery. Nondiabetic patients were matched 1:1 to diabetic patients in terms of age, sex, and type of surgery. Primary outcome was occurrence of POD, assessed using the 3-minute Diagnostic Confusion Assessment Method (3D-CAM) once daily from 6 pm to 8 pm during the postoperative days 1-7 or until discharge. Secondary outcome was the severity of POD which was assessed for all participants using the short form of the CAM-Severity. Frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded starting before induction of anesthesia and lasting until discharge from the operating room. Intraoperative alpha power was calculated using multitaper spectral analyses. Mediation analysis was used to estimate the proportion of the association between preoperative diabetes and POD that could be explained by intraoperative alpha power. RESULTS A total of 138 pairs of eligible patients successfully matched 1:1. After enrollment, 6 patients in the diabetes group and 4 patients in the nondiabetes group were excluded due to unavailability of raw EEG data. The final analysis included 132 participants with preoperative diabetes and 134 participants without preoperative diabetes, with a median age of 68 years and 72.6% of patients were female. The incidence of POD was 16.7% (22/132) in patients with preoperative diabetes vs 6.0% (8/134) in patients without preoperative diabetes. Preoperative diabetes was associated with increased odds of POD after adjustment of age, sex, body mass index, education level, hypertension, arrhythmia, coronary heart disease, and history of stroke (odds ratio, 3.2; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.4-8.0; P = .009). The intraoperative alpha power accounted for an estimated 20% (95% CI, 2.6-60%; P = .021) of the association between diabetes and POD. CONCLUSIONS This study suggests that preoperative diabetes is associated with an increased risk of POD in older patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery, and that low intraoperative alpha power partially mediates such association.
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- Zixiang Shang
- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- Department of Psychiatry, Affiliated Psychological Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- Geriatric Anesthesia Research Unit, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, P.R. China
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Kim YS, Kim J, Park S, Kim KN, Ha Y, Yi S, Shin DA, Kuh SU, Lee CK, Koo BN, Kim SE. Differential effects of sevoflurane and desflurane on frontal intraoperative electroencephalogram dynamics associated with postoperative delirium. J Clin Anesth 2024; 93:111368. [PMID: 38157663 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2023.111368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2023] [Revised: 11/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024]
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STUDY OBJECTIVE Intraoperative electroencephalogram (EEG) patterns associated with postoperative delirium (POD) development have been studied, but the differences in EEG recordings between sevoflurane- and desflurane-induced anesthesia have not been clarified. We aimed to distinguish the EEG characteristics of sevoflurane and desflurane in relation to POD development. DESIGN AND PATIENTS We collected frontal four-channel EEG data during the maintenance of anesthesia from 148 elderly patients who received sevoflurane (n = 77) or desflurane (n = 71); 30 patients were diagnosed with delirium postoperatively. The patients were divided into four subgroups based on anesthetics and delirium status: sevoflurane delirium (n = 17), sevoflurane non-delirium (n = 60), desflurane delirium (n = 13), and desflurane non-delirium (n = 58). We compared spectral power, coherence, and pairwise phase consistency (PPC) between sevoflurane and desflurane, and between non-delirium and delirium groups for each anesthetic. MAIN RESULTS In patients without POD, the sevoflurane non-delirium group exhibited higher EEG spectral power across 8.5-35 Hz (99.5% CI bootstrap analysis) and higher PPC from alpha to gamma bands (p < 0.005) compared to the desflurane non-delirium group. Conversely, in patients with POD, no significant EEG differences were observed between the sevoflurane and desflurane delirium groups. For the sevoflurane-induced patients, the sevoflurane delirium group had significantly lower power within 7.5-31.5 Hz (99.5% CI bootstrap analysis), reduced coherence over 8.9-23.8 Hz (99.5% CI bootstrap analysis), and lower PPC values in the alpha band (p < 0.005) compared with the sevoflurane non-delirium group. For the desflurane-induced patients, there were no significant differences in the EEG patterns between delirium and non-delirium groups. CONCLUSIONS In normal patients without POD, sevoflurane demonstrates a higher power spectrum and prefrontal connectivity than desflurane. Furthermore, reduced frontal alpha power, coherence, and connectivity of intraoperative EEG could be associated with an increased risk of POD. These intraoperative EEG characteristics associated with POD are more noticeable in sevoflurane-induced anesthesia than in desflurane-induced anesthesia.
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- Yeon-Su Kim
- Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea; Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea; Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea; POSTECH Biotech Center, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea; Anesthesia and Pain Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul 01811, Republic of Korea.
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Baron Shahaf D, Shahaf G. Intraoperative EEG-based monitors: are we looking under the lamppost? Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2024; 37:177-183. [PMID: 38390951 DOI: 10.1097/aco.0000000000001339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW While electroencephalogram (EEG)-based depth of anesthesia monitors have been in use clinically for decades, there is still a major debate concerning their efficacy for detecting awareness under anesthesia (AUA). Further utilization of these monitors has also been discussed vividly, for example, reduction of postoperative delirium (POD).It seems that with regard to reducing AUA and POD, these monitors might be applicable, under specific anesthetic protocols. But in other settings, such monitoring might be less contributive and may have a 'built-it glass ceiling'.Recent advances in other venues of electrophysiological monitoring might have a strong theoretical rationale, and early supporting results, to offer a breakthrough out of this metaphorical glass ceiling. The purpose of this review is to present this possibility. RECENT FINDINGS Following previous findings, it might be concluded that for some anesthesia protocols, the prevailing depth of anesthesia monitors may prevent incidences of AUA and POD. However, in other settings, which may involve other anesthesia protocols, or specifically for POD - other perioperative causes, they may not. Attention-related processes measured by easy-to-use real-time electrophysiological markers are becoming feasible, also under anesthesia, and might be applicable for more comprehensive prevention of AUA, POD and possibly other perioperative complications. SUMMARY Attention-related monitoring might have a strong theoretical basis for the prevention of AUA, POD, and potentially other distressing postoperative outcomes, such as stroke and postoperative neurocognitive disorder. There seems to be already some initial supporting evidence in this regard.
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- Dana Baron Shahaf
- Department of Anaesthesia, Rambam Healthcare Campus
- Ruth and Bruce Faculty of Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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- The Applied Neurophysiology Lab, Rambam Healthcare Campus, Haifa, Israel
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Mehler DM, Kreuzer M, Obert DP, Cardenas LF, Barra I, Zurita F, Lobo FA, Kratzer S, Schneider G, Sepúlveda PO. Electroencephalographic guided propofol-remifentanil TCI anesthesia with and without dexmedetomidine in a geriatric population: electroencephalographic signatures and clinical evaluation. J Clin Monit Comput 2024:10.1007/s10877-024-01127-4. [PMID: 38451341 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-024-01127-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
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Elderly and multimorbid patients are at high risk for developing unfavorable postoperative neurocognitive outcomes; however, well-adjusted and EEG-guided anesthesia may help titrate anesthesia and improve postoperative outcomes. Over the last decade, dexmedetomidine has been increasingly used as an adjunct in the perioperative setting. Its synergistic effect with propofol decreases the dose of propofol needed to induce and maintain general anesthesia. In this pilot study, we evaluate two highly standardized anesthetic regimens for their potential to prevent burst suppression and postoperative neurocognitive dysfunction in a high-risk population. Prospective, randomized clinical trial with non-blinded intervention. Operating room and post anesthesia care unit at Hospital Base San José, Osorno/Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile. 23 patients with scheduled non-neurologic, non-cardiac surgeries with age > 69 years and a planned intervention time > 60 min. Patients were randomly assigned to receive either a propofol-remifentanil based anesthesia or an anesthetic regimen with dexmedetomidine-propofol-remifentanil. All patients underwent a slow titrated induction, followed by a target controlled infusion (TCI) of propofol and remifentanil (n = 10) or propofol, remifentanil and continuous dexmedetomidine infusion (n = 13). We compared the perioperative EEG signatures, drug-induced changes, and neurocognitive outcomes between two anesthetic regimens in geriatric patients. We conducted a pre- and postoperative Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCa) test and measured the level of alertness postoperatively using a sedation agitation scale to assess neurocognitive status. During slow induction, maintenance, and emergence, burst suppression was not observed in either group; however, EEG signatures differed significantly between the two groups. In general, EEG activity in the propofol group was dominated by faster rhythms than in the dexmedetomidine group. Time to responsiveness was not significantly different between the two groups (p = 0.352). Finally, no significant differences were found in postoperative cognitive outcomes evaluated by the MoCa test nor sedation agitation scale up to one hour after extubation. This pilot study demonstrates that the two proposed anesthetic regimens can be safely used to slowly induce anesthesia and avoid EEG burst suppression patterns. Despite the patients being elderly and at high risk, we did not observe postoperative neurocognitive deficits. The reduced alpha power in the dexmedetomidine-treated group was not associated with adverse neurocognitive outcomes.
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- Dominik M Mehler
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts's General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Base San José, Osorno/Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Base San José, Osorno/Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Base San José, Osorno/Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile
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- Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, UAE
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Hospital Base San José, Osorno/Universidad Austral, Valdivia, Chile.
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Aldecoa C, Bettelli G, Bilotta F, Sanders RD, Aceto P, Audisio R, Cherubini A, Cunningham C, Dabrowski W, Forookhi A, Gitti N, Immonen K, Kehlet H, Koch S, Kotfis K, Latronico N, MacLullich AMJ, Mevorach L, Mueller A, Neuner B, Piva S, Radtke F, Blaser AR, Renzi S, Romagnoli S, Schubert M, Slooter AJC, Tommasino C, Vasiljewa L, Weiss B, Yuerek F, Spies CD. Update of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine evidence-based and consensus-based guideline on postoperative delirium in adult patients. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2024; 41:81-108. [PMID: 37599617 PMCID: PMC10763721 DOI: 10.1097/eja.0000000000001876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
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Postoperative delirium (POD) remains a common, dangerous and resource-consuming adverse event but is often preventable. The whole peri-operative team can play a key role in its management. This update to the 2017 ESAIC Guideline on the prevention of POD is evidence-based and consensus-based and considers the literature between 01 April 2015, and 28 February 2022. The search terms of the broad literature search were identical to those used in the first version of the guideline published in 2017. POD was defined in accordance with the DSM-5 criteria. POD had to be measured with a validated POD screening tool, at least once per day for at least 3 days starting in the recovery room or postanaesthesia care unit on the day of surgery or, at latest, on postoperative day 1. Recent literature confirmed the pathogenic role of surgery-induced inflammation, and this concept reinforces the positive role of multicomponent strategies aimed to reduce the surgical stress response. Although some putative precipitating risk factors are not modifiable (length of surgery, surgical site), others (such as depth of anaesthesia, appropriate analgesia and haemodynamic stability) are under the control of the anaesthesiologists. Multicomponent preoperative, intra-operative and postoperative preventive measures showed potential to reduce the incidence and duration of POD, confirming the pivotal role of a comprehensive and team-based approach to improve patients' clinical and functional status.
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- César Aldecoa
- From the Department of Anaesthesia and Postoperative Critical Care, Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain (CA), Department of Biomedical Studies, University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino (GB), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy (FB, AF, LM), Specialty of Anaesthetics & NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, University of Sydney & Department of Anaesthetics and Institute of Academic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RDS), Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, and Campus Virchow Klinikum (CDS, SK, AM, BN, LV, BW, FY), Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Emergenza, Anestesiologiche e della Rianimazione, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy (PA), Dipartimento di Scienze Biotecnologiche di Base, Cliniche Intensivologiche e Perioperatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy (PA), Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden (RA), Geriatria, Accettazione Geriatrica e Centro di ricerca per l'invecchiamento, IRCCS INRCA, Ancona, Italy (AC), School of Biochemistry and Immunology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (CC), First Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medical University of Lublin, Poland (WD), Research Unit of Nursing Science and Health Management, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland (KI), Section of Surgical Pathophysiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark (HK), Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Therapy and Acute Intoxications, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland (KK), Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia (NG, NL, SP, SR), Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency, Spedali Civili University Hospital, Brescia, Italy (NL, SP), Edinburgh Delirium Research Group, Ageing and Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (AMJM), Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Nykoebing Hospital; University of Southern Denmark, SDU (SK, FR), Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (ARB), Center for Intensive Care Medicine, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland (ARB), Department of Health Science, Section of Anesthesiology, University of Florence (SR), Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy (SR), School of Health Sciences, Institute of Nursing, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Science, Winterthur, Switzerland (MS), Departments of Psychiatry and Intensive Care Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands (AJCS), Department of Neurology, UZ Brussel and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium (AJCS) and Dental Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Polo Universitario Ospedale San Paolo, Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Odontoiatric Sciences, University of Milano, Milan, Italy (CT)
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Ma ZM, Hu JH, Ying YY, Chen X, Xu JY, Huo WW, Liu H, Ji FH, Peng K. Effect of remimazolam on electroencephalogram burst suppression in elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery: Protocol for a randomized controlled noninferiority trial. Heliyon 2024; 10:e23879. [PMID: 38192765 PMCID: PMC10772712 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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Background Postoperative delirium (POD) is a common complication following cardiac surgery and increases postoperative morbidity and mortality. Intraoperative electroencephalogram (EEG) burst suppression suggests excessively deep anesthesia and predicts POD. Use of remimazolam provides a stable hemodynamic status and an appropriate depth of anesthesia. We aim to assess remimazolam administered for anesthesia and sedation in elderly patients having cardiac surgery. Methods This is a randomized controlled clinical trial with noninferiority design. A total of 260 elderly patients aged equal to or greater than 60 years undergoing cardiac surgery will be randomly allocated to receive remimazolam or propofol (1:1) for general anesthesia and postoperative sedation until extubation. The primary outcome is the cumulative time with EEG burst suppression which is obtained from the SedLine system. The noninferiority margin is 2.0 min. The secondary outcomes include the POD occurrence within the first 5 days postoperatively and the duration of perioperative hypotension. Discussion This noninferiority trial is the first to evaluate the effect of perioperative remimazolam administration on EEG burst suppression, POD occurrence, and duration of hypotension in elderly patients who undergo cardiac surgery. Trial registration Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR2200056353).
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- Zheng-min Ma
- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Medical Affairs, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Soochow University Medical College, Suzhou, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of California Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
- Institute of Anesthesiology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
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Lersch F, Correia PC, Hight D, Kaiser HA, Berger-Estilita J. The nuts and bolts of multimodal anaesthesia in the 21st century: a primer for clinicians. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol 2023; 36:666-675. [PMID: 37724595 PMCID: PMC10621648 DOI: 10.1097/aco.0000000000001308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/21/2023]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review article explores the application of multimodal anaesthesia in general anaesthesia, particularly in conjunction with locoregional anaesthesia, specifically focusing on the importance of EEG monitoring. We provide an evidence-based guide for implementing multimodal anaesthesia, encompassing drug combinations, dosages, and EEG monitoring techniques, to ensure reliable intraoperative anaesthesia while minimizing adverse effects and improving patient outcomes. RECENT FINDINGS Opioid-free and multimodal general anaesthesia have significantly reduced opioid addiction and chronic postoperative pain. However, the evidence supporting the effectiveness of these approaches is limited. This review attempts to integrate research from broader neuroscientific fields to generate new clinical hypotheses. It discusses the correlation between high-dose intraoperative opioids and increased postoperative opioid consumption and their impact on pain indices and readmission rates. Additionally, it explores the relationship between multimodal anaesthesia and pain processing models and investigates the potential effects of nonpharmacological interventions on preoperative anxiety and postoperative pain. SUMMARY The integration of EEG monitoring is crucial for guiding adequate multimodal anaesthesia and preventing excessive anaesthesia dosing. Furthermore, the review investigates the impact of combining regional and opioid-sparing general anaesthesia on perioperative EEG readings and anaesthetic depth. The findings have significant implications for clinical practice in optimizing multimodal anaesthesia techniques (Supplementary Digital Content 1: Video Abstract, http://links.lww.com/COAN/A96 ).
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- Friedrich Lersch
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern
- Centre for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hirslanden Klink Aarau, Hirslanden Medical Group, Schaenisweg, Aarau
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- Institute of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Salemspital, Hirslanden Medical Group
- Institute for Medical Education, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- CINTESIS@RISE, Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Hao D, Fritz BA, Saddawi-Konefka D, Palanca BJA. Pro-Con Debate: Electroencephalography-Guided Anesthesia for Reducing Postoperative Delirium. Anesth Analg 2023; 137:976-982. [PMID: 37862399 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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Postoperative delirium (POD) has significant implications on morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditures. Monitoring electroencephalography (EEG) to adjust anesthetic management has gained interest as a strategy to mitigate POD. In this Pro-Con commentary article, the pro side supports the use of EEG to reduce POD, citing an empiric reduction in POD with processed EEG (pEEG)-guided general anesthesia found in several studies and recent meta-analysis. The Electroencephalography Guidance of Anesthesia to Alleviate Geriatric Syndromes (ENGAGES) trial is the exception to this, and issues with methods and achieved depths are discussed. Meanwhile, the Con side advocates that the use of EEG to reduce POD is not yet certain, citing that there is a lack of evidence that associations between anesthetic depth and POD represent causal relationships. The Con side also contends that the ideal EEG signatures to guide anesthetic titration are currently unknown, and the potential benefits of reduced anesthesia levels may be outweighed by the risks of potentially insufficient anesthetic administration. As the public health burden of POD increases, anesthesia clinicians will be tasked to consider interventions to mitigate risk such as EEG. This Pro-Con debate will provide 2 perspectives on the evidence and rationales for using EEG to mitigate POD.
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- David Hao
- From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
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- From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri
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Neuner B, Wolter S, McCarthy WJ, Spies C, Cunningham C, Radtke FM, Franck M, Koenig T. EEG microstate quantifiers and state space descriptors during anaesthesia in patients with postoperative delirium: a descriptive analysis. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad270. [PMID: 37942086 PMCID: PMC10629467 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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Postoperative delirium is a serious sequela of surgery and surgery-related anaesthesia. One recommended method to prevent postoperative delirium is using bi-frontal EEG recording. The single, processed index of depth of anaesthesia allows the anaesthetist to avoid episodes of suppression EEG and excessively deep anaesthesia. The study data presented here were based on multichannel (19 channels) EEG recordings during anaesthesia. This enabled the analysis of various parameters of global electrical brain activity. These parameters were used to compare microstate topographies under anaesthesia with those in healthy volunteers and to analyse changes in microstate quantifiers and EEG global state space descriptors with increasing exposure to anaesthesia. Seventy-three patients from the Surgery Depth of Anaesthesia and Cognitive Outcome study (SRCTN 36437985) received intraoperative multichannel EEG recordings. Altogether, 720 min of artefact-free EEG data, including 210 min (29.2%) of suppression EEG, were analysed. EEG microstate topographies, microstate quantifiers (duration, frequency of occurrence and global field power) and the state space descriptors sigma (overall EEG power), phi (generalized frequency) and omega (number of uncorrelated brain processes) were evaluated as a function of duration of exposure to anaesthesia, suppression EEG and subsequent development of postoperative delirium. The major analyses involved covariate-adjusted linear mixed-effects models. The older (71 ± 7 years), predominantly male (60%) patients received a median exposure of 210 (range: 75-675) min of anaesthesia. During seven postoperative days, 21 patients (29%) developed postoperative delirium. Microstate topographies under anaesthesia resembled topographies from healthy and much younger awake persons. With increasing duration of exposure to anaesthesia, single microstate quantifiers progressed differently in suppression or non-suppression EEG and in patients with or without subsequent postoperative delirium. The most pronounced changes occurred during enduring suppression EEG in patients with subsequent postoperative delirium: duration and frequency of occurrence of microstates C and D progressed in opposite directions, and the state space descriptors showed a pattern of declining uncorrelated brain processes (omega) combined with increasing EEG variance (sigma). With increasing exposure to general anaesthesia, multiple changes in the dynamics of microstates and global EEG parameters occurred. These changes varied partly between suppression and non-suppression EEG and between patients with or without subsequent postoperative delirium. Ongoing suppression EEG in patients with subsequent postoperative delirium was associated with reduced network complexity in combination with increased overall EEG power. Additionally, marked changes in quantifiers in microstate C and in microstate D occurred. These putatively adverse intraoperative trajectories in global electrical brain activity may be seen as preceding and ultimately predicting postoperative delirium.
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- Bruno Neuner
- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Centre for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095-1781, USA
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute & Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, 2 D02 R590 Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Hospital of Nykøbing Falster, Fjordvej 15, 4800 Nykøbing Falster, Denmark
- University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- Department of Anaesthesia, Alexianer St.Hedwig Hospital, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- University Hospital of Psychiatry, Translational Research Centre, University of Bern, 3000 Bern, Switzerland
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He Z, Zhang H, Xing Y, Liu J, Gao Y, Gu E, Zhang L, Chen L. Effect of raw electroencephalogram-guided anesthesia administration on postoperative outcomes in elderly patients undergoing abdominal major surgery: a randomized controlled trial. BMC Anesthesiol 2023; 23:337. [PMID: 37803259 PMCID: PMC10557275 DOI: 10.1186/s12871-023-02297-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 09/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND EEG monitoring techniques are receiving increasing clinical attention as a common method of reflecting the depth of sedation in the perioperative period. The influence of depth of sedation indices such as the bispectral index (BIS) generated by the processed electroencephalogram (pEEG) machine to guide the management of anesthetic depth of sedation on postoperative outcome remains controversial. This research was designed to decide whether an anesthetic agent exposure determined by raw electroencephalogram (rEEG) can influence anesthetic management and cause different EEG patterns and affect various patient outcomes. METHODS A total of 141 participants aged ≥ 60 years undergoing abdominal major surgery were randomized to rEEG-guided anesthesia or routine care group. The rEEG-guided anesthesia group had propofol titrated to keep the rEEG waveform at the C-D sedation depth during surgery, while in the routine care group the anesthetist was masked to the patient's rEEG waveform and guided the anesthetic management only through clinical experience. The primary outcome was the presence of postoperative complications, the secondary outcomes included intraoperative anesthetic management and different EEG patterns. RESULTS There were no statistically significant differences in the occurrence of postoperative respiratory, circulatory, neurological and gastrointestinal complications. Further EEG analysis revealed that lower frontal alpha power was significantly associated with a higher incidence of POD, and that rEEG-guidance not only reduced the duration of deeper anesthesia in patients with lower frontal alpha power, but also allowed patients with higher frontal alpha power to receive deeper and more appropriate depths of anesthesia than in the routine care group. CONCLUSIONS In elderly patients undergoing major abdominal surgery, rEEG-guided anesthesia did not reduce the incidence of postoperative respiratory, circulatory, neurological and gastrointestinal complications. rEEG-guided anesthesia management reduced the duration of intraoperative BS in patients and the duration of over-deep sedation in patients with lower frontal alpha waves under anesthesia, and there was a strong association between lower frontal alpha power under anesthesia and the development of POD. rEEG-guided anesthesia may improve the prognosis of patients with vulnerable brains by improving the early identification of frail elderly patients and providing them with a more effective individualized anesthetic managements.
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- Ziqing He
- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei, Anhui Province, 230022, China.
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Khalifa C, Lenoir C, Robert A, Watremez C, Kahn D, Mastrobuoni S, Aphram G, Ivanoiu A, Bonhomme V, Mouraux A, Momeni M. Intra-operative electroencephalogram frontal alpha-band spectral analysis and postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery: A prospective cohort study. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2023; 40:777-787. [PMID: 37551153 DOI: 10.1097/eja.0000000000001895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND Postoperative delirium (POD) remains a frequent complication after cardiac surgery, with pre-operative cognitive status being one of the main predisposing factors. However, performing complete pre-operative neuropsychological testing is challenging. The magnitude of frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) α oscillations during general anaesthesia has been related to pre-operative cognition and could constitute a functional marker for brain vulnerability. OBJECTIVE We hypothesised that features of intra-operative α-band activity could predict the occurrence of POD. DESIGN Single-centre prospective observational study. SETTING University hospital, from 15 May 2019 to 15 December 2021. PATIENTS Adult patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Pre-operative cognitive status was assessed by neuropsychological tests and scored as a global z score. A 5-min EEG recording was obtained 30 min after induction of anaesthesia. Anaesthesia was maintained with sevoflurane. Power and peak frequency in the α-band were extracted from the frequency spectra. POD was assessed using the Confusion Assessment Method for Intensive Care Unit, the Confusion Assessment Method and a chart review. RESULTS Sixty-five (29.5%) of 220 patients developed POD. Delirious patients were significantly older with median [IQR] ages of 74 [64 to 79] years vs. 67 [59 to 74] years; P < 0.001) and had lower pre-operative cognitive z scores (-0.52 ± 1.14 vs. 0.21 ± 0.84; P < 0.001). Mean α power (-14.03 ± 4.61 dB vs. -11.59 ± 3.37 dB; P < 0.001) and maximum α power (-11.36 ± 5.28 dB vs. -8.85 ± 3.90 dB; P < 0.001) were significantly lower in delirious patients. Intra-operative mean α power was significantly associated with the probability of developing POD (adjusted odds ratio, 0.88; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.81 to 0.96; P = 0.007), independently of age and only whenever cognitive status was not considered. CONCLUSION A lower intra-operative frontal α-band power is associated with a higher incidence of POD after cardiac surgery. Intra-operative measures of α power could constitute a means of identifying patients at risk of this complication. TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT03706989.
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- Céline Khalifa
- From the Department of Anaesthesiology, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) (CK, CW, DK, MM), Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) (CK, AR, CW, DK, SM, GA, MM), Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) (CK, CL, CW, AI, AM, MM), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) (AR), Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) (SM, GA), Department of Neurology, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels (AI), Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Liège University Hospital (VB) and Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Neuroscience Laboratory, GIGA-Consciousness Thematic Unit, GIGA-Research, Liege University, Liege, Belgium (VB)
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Xie Z, Fong R, Fox AP. Towards a potent and rapidly reversible Dexmedetomidine-based general anesthetic. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0291827. [PMID: 37751454 PMCID: PMC10522005 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 09/28/2023] Open
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IN CONCLUSION Our results suggest that Dex supplemented with a low dose of a second agent creates a potent anesthetic that is rapidly reversed by atipamezole and caffeine.
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- Zheng Xie
- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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- Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America
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Doubovikov ED, Serdyukova NA, Greenberg SB, Gascoigne DA, Minhaj MM, Aksenov DP. Electric Field Effects on Brain Activity: Implications for Epilepsy and Burst Suppression. Cells 2023; 12:2229. [PMID: 37759452 PMCID: PMC10527339 DOI: 10.3390/cells12182229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2023] [Revised: 08/07/2023] [Accepted: 09/04/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Electric fields are now considered a major mechanism of epileptiform activity. However, it is not clear if another electrophysiological phenomenon, burst suppression, utilizes the same mechanism for its bursting phase. Thus, the purpose of this study was to compare the role of ephaptic coupling-the recruitment of neighboring cells via electric fields-in generating bursts in epilepsy and burst suppression. We used local injections of the GABA-antagonist picrotoxin to elicit epileptic activity and a general anesthetic, sevoflurane, to elicit burst suppression in rabbits. Then, we applied an established computational model of pyramidal cells to simulate neuronal activity in a 3-dimensional grid, with an additional parameter to trigger a suppression phase based on extra-cellular calcium dynamics. We discovered that coupling via electric fields was sufficient to produce bursting in scenarios where inhibitory control of excitatory neurons was sufficiently low. Under anesthesia conditions, bursting occurs with lower neuronal recruitment in comparison to seizures. Our model predicts that due to the effect of electric fields, the magnitude of bursts during seizures should be roughly 2-3 times the magnitude of bursts that occur during burst suppression, which is consistent with our in vivo experimental results. The resulting difference in magnitude between bursts during anesthesia and epileptiform bursts reflects the strength of the electric field effect, which suggests that burst suppression and epilepsy share the same ephaptic coupling mechanism.
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- Evan D. Doubovikov
- Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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- Department of Radiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Department of Anesthesiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
- Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Kaufmann C, Zech N, Brandt F, Hilker M, Debl K, Creutzenberg M, Zeman F, Graf BM, Sinner B. Intraoperative suggestions to prevent postoperative delirium in patients undergoing transaortic valvular replacement: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. Aging Clin Exp Res 2023; 35:1865-1872. [PMID: 37392348 PMCID: PMC10460361 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-023-02476-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Postoperative delirium (POD) is a serious complication following anaesthesia and surgery and significantly influences postoperative outcome especially in the elderly population. Intraoperative music and positive suggestions influence postoperative outcomes by attenuating analgesic demand and increasing patient satisfaction. AIMS Here, we examined the effect of intraoperative music and positive suggestions on the development of POD in aged patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure under general anaesthesia. METHODS For this randomized placebo-controlled study, eligible patients without cognitive deficit, indicated by a MMSE < 10 points, were anesthetized using remifentanil and sevoflurane. Anaesthetic depth was guide with bispectral index. An audiotape with positive suggestions was applied from a MP3 player via headphones. POD, pain and PONV was assessed. CAM-ICU and Nu-DESC were done twice daily for the first 5 days. RESULTS Of 140 patients 118 patients could be analysed (57 male, 80.6 ± 5.1 years). POD was diagnosed in 16 patients (12.7%). POD was significantly more often observed in male (12, 21.1%) than in female (4, 6.6%, p = 0.02) and in patients with a low MMSE (23.6 ± 4.5 vs. 26.8 ± 2.8, p = 0.001). Anaesthetic depth did not influence the incidence of POD. Intraoperative music and suggestions did not affect the rate of POD, pain, analgesic requirement or PONV. DISCUSSION In patients undergoing TAVR male sex and low MMSE scoring are associated with an increase in POD. CONCLUSIONS Intraoperative music and positive suggestions do not influence the incidence of POD in this patient group. STUDY REGISTRATION DRKS: 00024444, start of registration: 4.02.202, final registration: 17.09.2021.
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- Christina Kaufmann
- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biostatistics, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.
- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Ren S, Zang C, Yuan F, Yan X, Zhang Y, Yuan S, Sun Z, Lang B. Correlation between burst suppression and postoperative delirium in elderly patients: a prospective study. Aging Clin Exp Res 2023; 35:1873-1879. [PMID: 37479909 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-023-02460-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To explore the correlation between intraoperative burst suppression (BS) and postoperative delirium (POD) in elderly patients, and provide more ideas for reducing POD in clinical. METHODS Ninety patients, aged over 60 years, who underwent lumbar internal fixation surgery in our hospital were selected. General information of patients was obtained and informed consent was signed during preoperative visits. Patients were divided into burst suppression (BS) group and non-burst suppression (NBS) group by intraoperative electroencephalogram monitoring. Intraoperative systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and heart rate (HR) were recorded, and the variation and minimum value were obtained by calculating. Hemoglobin (HGB), C-reactive protein (CRP), system immune inflammatory index (SII) at 24 and 72 h after surgery, the incidence of postoperative adverse reactions, postoperative hospital stay, and total cost were recorded after operation. POD assessment was performed using CAM within 7 days after surgery or until discharge. SPSS25.0 was used for statistical analysis. RESULTS Compared with the NBS group, the number of elderly patients with high frailty level in BS group was more (P = 0.048). There is correlation between BS and POD (OR: 4.954, 95%CI 1.034-23.736, P = 0.045), and most of the POD patients in BS group behave as hyperactive type. CONCLUSION The occurrence of intraoperative BS is associated with POD, and elderly patients with frailty are more likely to have intraoperative BS. BS can be used as a predictor of POD.
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- Shengjie Ren
- School of Anesthesiology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China
- Department of Anesthesiology, Weifang Second People's Hospital, Weifang, 261041, China
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- School of Anesthesiology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Zibo Central Hospital, Zibo, 255020, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, 261041, China
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- School of Anesthesiology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China
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- School of Anesthesiology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China
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- School of Anesthesiology, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, 261053, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Weifang People's Hospital, Weifang, 261041, China.
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Zhang X, Li A, Wang S, Wang T, Liu T, Wang Y, Fu J, Zhao G, Yang Q, Dong H. Differences in the EEG Power Spectrum and Cross-Frequency Coupling Patterns between Young and Elderly Patients during Sevoflurane Anesthesia. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1149. [PMID: 37626505 PMCID: PMC10452117 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13081149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Revised: 07/23/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/27/2023] Open
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Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used for monitoring the depth of anesthesia in surgical patients. Distinguishing age-related EEG features under general anesthesia will help to optimize anesthetic depth monitoring during surgery for elderly patients. This retrospective cohort study included 41 patients aged from 18 to 79 years undergoing noncardiac surgery under general anesthesia. We compared the power spectral signatures and phase-amplitude coupling patterns of the young and elderly groups under baseline and surgical anesthetic depth. General anesthesia by sevoflurane significantly increased the spectral power of delta, theta, alpha, and beta bands and strengthened the cross-frequency coupling both in young and elderly patients. However, the variation in EEG power spectral density and the modulation of alpha amplitudes on delta phases was relatively weaker in elderly patients. In conclusion, the EEG under general anesthesia using sevoflurane exhibited similar dynamic features between young and elderly patients, and the weakened alteration of spectral power and cross-frequency coupling patterns could be utilized to precisely quantify the depth of anesthesia in elderly patients.
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- Xinxin Zhang
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
- Anesthesia and Operation Center, The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
- Department of Anesthesiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710000, China; (X.Z.); (A.L.); (S.W.); (T.W.); (T.L.); (Y.W.); (J.F.); (G.Z.)
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Xu Q, Zhang J, Gao Z, Li S, Li G. Analysis of the relationship between EEG burst suppression and poor prognosis in children under general anaesthesia: study protocol for a prospective, observational, single-centre study. Trials 2023; 24:481. [PMID: 37501064 PMCID: PMC10375778 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-023-07478-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Emergence delirium (ED) in children refers to the immediate postoperative period when children experience decreased perception of their surroundings, accompanied by disorientation and altered perception. Burst suppression (BS) is recognised as periods longer than 0.50 s during which the EEG does not exceed approximately + 5.0 mV, which is an electroencephalographic state associated with profound inactivation of the brain. Our primary objective was to determine the association between BS on electroencephalogram (EEG) under general anaesthesia with postoperative wake-up delirium and multiple adverse outcomes, such as prolonged awakening and extubation. METHODS In this prospective, observational cohort study at Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China, children aged 6 months to 9 years who underwent surgery under general anaesthesia and underwent EEG monitoring between January 2022 and January 2023 were included. Patients' prefrontal EEGs were recorded intraoperatively as well as analysed for the occurrence and duration of BS and scored postoperatively for delirium by the PAED scale, with a score of no less than 10 considered as having developed wake-up delirium. DISCUSSION This study identified a relationship between EEG BS and postoperative awakening delirium under general anaesthesia in children and provides a novel preventive strategy for postoperative awakening delirium and multiple adverse outcomes in paediatric patients. TRIAL REGISTRATION Chinese Clinical Trial Registry, ChiCTR2200055256. Registered on January 5, 2022.
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- Qian Xu
- Department of Anesthesiology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, No.56, South Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, No.56, South Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, China.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, No.56, South Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, No.56, South Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Center for Children's Health, Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, No.56, South Lishi Road, Beijing, 100045, China
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Berger M, Ryu D, Reese M, McGuigan S, Evered LA, Price CC, Scott DA, Westover MB, Eckenhoff R, Bonanni L, Sweeney A, Babiloni C. A Real-Time Neurophysiologic Stress Test for the Aging Brain: Novel Perioperative and ICU Applications of EEG in Older Surgical Patients. Neurotherapeutics 2023; 20:975-1000. [PMID: 37436580 PMCID: PMC10457272 DOI: 10.1007/s13311-023-01401-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 07/13/2023] Open
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As of 2022, individuals age 65 and older represent approximately 10% of the global population [1], and older adults make up more than one third of anesthesia and surgical cases in developed countries [2, 3]. With approximately > 234 million major surgical procedures performed annually worldwide [4], this suggests that > 70 million surgeries are performed on older adults across the globe each year. The most common postoperative complications seen in these older surgical patients are perioperative neurocognitive disorders including postoperative delirium, which are associated with an increased risk for mortality [5], greater economic burden [6, 7], and greater risk for developing long-term cognitive decline [8] such as Alzheimer's disease and/or related dementias (ADRD). Thus, anesthesia, surgery, and postoperative hospitalization have been viewed as a biological "stress test" for the aging brain, in which postoperative delirium indicates a failed stress test and consequent risk for later cognitive decline (see Fig. 3). Further, it has been hypothesized that interventions that prevent postoperative delirium might reduce the risk of long-term cognitive decline. Recent advances suggest that rather than waiting for the development of postoperative delirium to indicate whether a patient "passed" or "failed" this stress test, the status of the brain can be monitored in real-time via electroencephalography (EEG) in the perioperative period. Beyond the traditional intraoperative use of EEG monitoring for anesthetic titration, perioperative EEG may be a viable tool for identifying waveforms indicative of reduced brain integrity and potential risk for postoperative delirium and long-term cognitive decline. In principle, research incorporating routine perioperative EEG monitoring may provide insight into neuronal patterns of dysfunction associated with risk of postoperative delirium, long-term cognitive decline, or even specific types of aging-related neurodegenerative disease pathology. This research would accelerate our understanding of which waveforms or neuronal patterns necessitate diagnostic workup and intervention in the perioperative period, which could potentially reduce postoperative delirium and/or dementia risk. Thus, here we present recommendations for the use of perioperative EEG as a "predictor" of delirium and perioperative cognitive decline in older surgical patients.
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- Miles Berger
- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke South Orange Zone Room 4315B, Box 3094, Durham, NC, 27710, USA.
- Duke Aging Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
- Duke/UNC Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
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- School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke South Orange Zone Room 4315B, Box 3094, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
- Duke Aging Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
- Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University G d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
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- School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology "Vittorio Erspamer", Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- San Raffaele of Cassino, Cassino, FR, Italy
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Chang BA, Cassim TZ, Mittel AM, Brambrink AM, García PS. Frontal Electroencephalography Findings in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2023; 35:322-326. [PMID: 35249987 PMCID: PMC10249398 DOI: 10.1097/ana.0000000000000837] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) negatively impacts the central nervous system, and studies using a full montage of electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes have reported nonspecific EEG patterns associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. The use of this technology is resource-intensive and limited in its implementation. In this descriptive pilot study, we report neurophysiological patterns and the potential prognostic capability of an abbreviated frontal EEG electrode montage in critically ill COVID-19 patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients receiving mechanical ventilation for SARS-CoV-2 respiratory failure were monitored with Sedline Root Devices using EEG electrodes were placed over the forehead. Qualitative EEG assessments were conducted daily. The primary outcome was mortality, and secondary outcomes were duration of endotracheal intubation and lengths of intensive care and hospitalization stay. RESULTS Twenty-six patients were included in the study, and EEG discontinuity was identified in 22 (84.6%) patients. The limited sample size and patient heterogeneity precluded statistical analysis, but certain patterns were suggested by trends in the data. Survival was 100% (4/4) for those patients in which a discontinuous EEG pattern was not observed. The majority of patients (87.5%, 7/8) demonstrating activity in the low-moderate frequency range (7 to 17 Hz) survived compared with 61.1% (11/18) of those without this observation. CONCLUSIONS The majority of COVID-19 patients showed signs of EEG discontinuity during monitoring with an abbreviated electrode montage. The trends towards worse survival among those with EEG discontinuity support the need for additional studies to investigate these associations in COVID-19 patients.
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Bong CL, Balanza GA, Khoo CEH, Tan JSK, Desel T, Purdon PL. A Narrative Review Illustrating the Clinical Utility of Electroencephalogram-Guided Anesthesia Care in Children. Anesth Analg 2023; 137:108-123. [PMID: 36729437 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000006267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The major therapeutic end points of general anesthesia include hypnosis, amnesia, and immobility. There is a complex relationship between general anesthesia, responsiveness, hemodynamic stability, and reaction to noxious stimuli. This complexity is compounded in pediatric anesthesia, where clinicians manage children from a wide range of ages, developmental stages, and body sizes, with their concomitant differences in physiology and pharmacology. This renders anesthetic requirements difficult to predict based solely on a child's age, body weight, and vital signs. Electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring provides a window into children's brain states and may be useful in guiding clinical anesthesia management. However, many clinicians are unfamiliar with EEG monitoring in children. Young children's EEGs differ substantially from those of older children and adults, and there is a lack of evidence-based guidance on how and when to use the EEG for anesthesia care in children. This narrative review begins by summarizing what is known about EEG monitoring in pediatric anesthesia care. A key knowledge gap in the literature relates to a lack of practical information illustrating the utility of the EEG in clinical management. To address this gap, this narrative review illustrates how the EEG spectrogram can be used to visualize, in real time, brain responses to anesthetic drugs in relation to hemodynamic stability, surgical stimulation, and other interventions such as cardiopulmonary bypass. This review discusses anesthetic management principles in a variety of clinical scenarios, including infants, children with altered conscious levels, children with atypical neurodevelopment, children with hemodynamic instability, children undergoing total intravenous anesthesia, and those undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. Each scenario is accompanied by practical illustrations of how the EEG can be visualized to help titrate anesthetic dosage to avoid undersedation or oversedation when patients experience hypotension or other physiological challenges, when surgical stimulation increases, and when a child's anesthetic requirements are otherwise less predictable. Overall, this review illustrates how well-established clinical management principles in children can be significantly complemented by the addition of EEG monitoring, thus enabling personalized anesthesia care to enhance patient safety and experience.
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- Choon Looi Bong
- From the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- From the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- From the Department of Pediatric Anesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Boncompte G, Sun H, Elgueta MF, Benavides J, Carrasco M, Morales MI, Calderón N, Contreras V, Westover MB, Cortínez LI, Akeju O, Pedemonte JC. Intraoperative electroencephalographic marker of preoperative frailty: A prospective cohort study. J Clin Anesth 2023; 86:111069. [PMID: 36738630 PMCID: PMC10074446 DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2023.111069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Revised: 01/25/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Gonzalo Boncompte
- Neurodynamics of Cognition Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Boston, MA, USA; Clinical Data Animation Center (CDAC), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Sección de Geriatría, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Sección de Geriatría, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Departamento del Adulto, Escuela de Enfermería, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Boston, MA, USA; Clinical Data Animation Center (CDAC), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Henry and Allison McCance Center for Brain Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Programa de Farmacología y Toxicología, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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Lendner JD, Harler U, Daume J, Engel AK, Zöllner C, Schneider TR, Fischer M. Oscillatory and aperiodic neuronal activity in working memory following anesthesia. Clin Neurophysiol 2023; 150:79-88. [PMID: 37028144 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2022] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Anesthesia and surgery are associated with cognitive impairment, particularly memory deficits. So far, electroencephalography markers of perioperative memory function remain scarce. METHODS We included male patients >60 years scheduled for prostatectomy under general anesthesia. We obtained neuropsychological assessments and a visual match-to-sample working memory task with simultaneous 62-channel scalp electroencephalography 1 day before and 2 to 3 days after surgery. RESULTS Twenty-six patients completed both pre- and postoperative sessions. Compared with preoperative performance, verbal learning deteriorated after anesthesia (California Verbal Learning Test total recall; t25 = -3.25, p = 0.015, d = -0.902), while visual working memory performance showed a dissociation between match and mismatch accuracy (match*session F1,25 = 3.866, p = 0.060). Better verbal learning was associated with an increase of aperiodic brain activity (total recall r = 0.66, p = 0.029, learning slope r = 0.66, p = 0.015), whereas visual working memory accuracy was tracked by oscillatory theta/alpha (7 - 9 Hz), low beta (14 - 18 Hz) and high beta/gamma (34 - 38 Hz) activity (matches: p < 0.001, mismatches: p = 0.022). CONCLUSIONS Oscillatory and aperiodic brain activity in scalp electroencephalography track distinct features of perioperative memory function. SIGNIFICANCE Aperiodic activity provides a potential electroencephalographic biomarker to identify patients at risk for postoperative cognitive impairments.
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Contribution of intraoperative electroencephalogram suppression to frailty-associated postoperative delirium: mediation analysis of a prospective surgical cohort. Br J Anaesth 2023; 130:e263-e271. [PMID: 36503826 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2022.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2022] [Revised: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 11/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Frailty is a risk factor for postoperative delirium (POD), and has led to preoperative interventions that have reduced, but not eliminated, the risk. We hypothesised that EEG suppression, another risk factor for POD, mediates some of the frailty risk for POD. METHODS A prospective cohort study enrolled patients aged 65 yr or older, scheduled for noncardiac surgery under total intravenous anaesthesia. Frailty was assessed using the FRAIL scale. Cumulative duration of EEG suppression, defined as an amplitude between -5 and 5 μV for >0.5 s during anaesthesia, was measured. POD was diagnosed by either confusion assessment method (CAM), CAM-ICU, or medical records. The severity of POD was assessed using the Delirium Rating Scale - Revised-98 (DRS). Mediation analysis was used to estimate the relationships between frailty, EEG suppression, and severity of POD. RESULTS Among 252 enrolled patients, 51 were robust, 129 were prefrail, and 72 were frail. Patients classified as frail had higher duration of EEG suppression than either the robust (19 vs 0.57 s, P<0.001) or prefrail groups (19 vs 3.22 s, P<0.001). Peak delirium score was higher in the frail group than either the robust (17 vs 15, P<0.001) or prefrail groups (17 vs 16, P=0.007). EEG suppression time mediated 24.2% of the frailty-DRS scores association. CONCLUSION EEG suppression time mediated a statistically significant portion of the frailty-POD association in older noncardiac surgery patients. Trials directed at reducing EEG suppression time could result in intraoperative interventions to reduce POD in frail patients. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION ChiCTR2000041092 (Chinese Clinical Trial Registry).
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Ormseth CH, LaHue SC, Oldham MA, Josephson SA, Whitaker E, Douglas VC. Predisposing and Precipitating Factors Associated With Delirium: A Systematic Review. JAMA Netw Open 2023; 6:e2249950. [PMID: 36607634 PMCID: PMC9856673 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.49950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Despite discrete etiologies leading to delirium, it is treated as a common end point in hospital and in clinical trials, and delirium research may be hampered by the attempt to treat all instances of delirium similarly, leaving delirium management as an unmet need. An individualized approach based on unique patterns of delirium pathophysiology, as reflected in predisposing factors and precipitants, may be necessary, but there exists no accepted method of grouping delirium into distinct etiologic subgroups. OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review to identify potential predisposing and precipitating factors associated with delirium in adult patients agnostic to setting. EVIDENCE REVIEW A literature search was performed of PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and PsycINFO from database inception to December 2021 using search Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms consciousness disorders, confusion, causality, and disease susceptibility, with constraints of cohort or case-control studies. Two reviewers selected studies that met the following criteria for inclusion: published in English, prospective cohort or case-control study, at least 50 participants, delirium assessment in person by a physician or trained research personnel using a reference standard, and results including a multivariable model to identify independent factors associated with delirium. FINDINGS A total of 315 studies were included with a mean (SD) Newcastle-Ottawa Scale score of 8.3 (0.8) out of 9. Across 101 144 patients (50 006 [50.0%] male and 49 766 [49.1%] female patients) represented (24 015 with delirium), studies reported 33 predisposing and 112 precipitating factors associated with delirium. There was a diversity of factors associated with delirium, with substantial physiological heterogeneity. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this systematic review, a comprehensive list of potential predisposing and precipitating factors associated with delirium was found across all clinical settings. These findings may be used to inform more precise study of delirium's heterogeneous pathophysiology and treatment.
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- Cora H. Ormseth
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
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- University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
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- Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco
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Mu B, Xu W, Li H, Suo Z, Wang X, Zheng Y, Tian Y, Zhang B, Yu J, Tian N, Lin N, Zhao D, Zheng Z, Zheng H, Ni C. Determination of the effective dose of dexmedetomidine to achieve loss of consciousness during anesthesia induction. Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1158085. [PMID: 37153107 PMCID: PMC10159180 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1158085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/29/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023] Open
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Background Dexmedetomidine (DEX) is a sedative with greater preservation of cognitive function, reduced respiratory depression, and improved patient arousability. This study was designed to investigate the performance of DEX during anesthesia induction and to establish an effective DEX induction strategy, which could be valuable for multiple clinical conditions. Methods Patients undergoing abdominal surgery were involved in this dose-finding trial. Dixon's up-and-down sequential method was employed to determine the effective dose of DEX to achieve the state of "loss of consciousness", and an effective induction strategy was established with continuous infusion of DEX and remifentanil. The effects of DEX on hemodynamics, respiratory state, EEG, and anesthetic depth were monitored and analyzed. Results Through the strategy mentioned, the depth of surgical anesthesia was successfully achieved by DEX-led anesthesia induction. The ED50 and ED95 of the initial infusion rate of DEX were 0.115 and 0.200 μg/kg/min, respectively, and the mean induction time was 18.3 min. The ED50 and ED95 of DEX to achieve the state of "loss of consciousness" were 2.899 (95% CI: 2.703-3.115) and 5.001 (95% CI: 4.544-5.700) μg/kg, respectively. The mean PSI on the loss of consciousness was 42.8 among the patients. During anesthesia induction, the hemodynamics including BP and HR were stable, and the EEG monitor showed decreased α and β powers and increased θ and δ in the frontal and pre-frontal cortices of the brain. Conclusion This study indicated that continuous infusion of combined DEX and remifentanil could be an effective strategy for anesthesia induction. The EEG during the induction was similar to the physiological sleep process.
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- Bing Mu
- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Clinical Epidemiology Research Center, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College and Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Department of Gynecology Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Colorectal Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Kafashan M, Brian Hickman L, Labonte AK, Huels ER, Maybrier H, Guay CS, Subramanian S, Farber NB, Ching S, Hogan RE, Kelz MB, Avidan MS, Mashour GA, Palanca BJA. Quiescence during burst suppression and postictal generalized EEG suppression are distinct patterns of activity. Clin Neurophysiol 2022; 142:125-132. [PMID: 36030576 PMCID: PMC10287541 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2022.07.493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 07/17/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Periods of low-amplitude electroencephalographic (EEG) signal (quiescence) are present during both anesthetic-induced burst suppression (BS) and postictal generalized electroencephalographic suppression (PGES). PGES following generalized seizures induced by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been previously linked to antidepressant response. The commonality of quiescence during both BS and PGES motivated trials to recapitulate the antidepressant effects of ECT using high doses of anesthetics. However, there have been no direct electrographic comparisons of these quiescent periods to address whether these are distinct entities. METHODS We compared periods of EEG quiescence recorded from two human studies: BS induced in 29 healthy adult volunteers by isoflurane general anesthesia and PGES in 11 patients undergoing right unilateral ECT for treatment-resistant depression. An automated algorithm allowed detection of EEG quiescence based on a 10-microvolt amplitude threshold. Spatial, spectral, and temporal analyses compared quiescent epochs during BS and PGES. RESULTS The median (interquartile range) voltage for quiescent periods during PGES was greater than during BS (1.81 (0.22) microvolts vs 1.22 (0.33) microvolts, p < 0.001). Relative power was greater for quiescence during PGES than BS for the 1-4 Hz delta band (p < 0.001), at the expense of power in the theta (4-8 Hz, p < 0.001), beta (13-30 Hz, p = 0.04) and gamma (30-70 Hz, p = 0.006) frequency bands. Topographic analyses revealed that amplitude across the scalp was consistently higher for quiescent periods during PGES than BS, whose voltage was within the noise floor. CONCLUSIONS Quiescent epochs during PGES and BS have distinct patterns of EEG signals across voltage, frequency, and spatial domains. SIGNIFICANCE Quiescent epochs during PGES and BS, important neurophysiological markers for clinical outcomes, are shown to have distinct voltage and frequency characteristics.
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- MohammadMehdi Kafashan
- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Neuroscience Graduate Program, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Psychological & Brain Sciences Department, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Picower Institute for Learning & Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
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Predicting personalised remifentanil effect site concentration for surgical incision using the nociception level index: A prospective calibration and validation study. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2022; 39:918-927. [PMID: 36125017 DOI: 10.1097/eja.0000000000001751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Inadequate antinociception can cause haemodynamic instability. The nociception level (NOL) index measures response to noxious stimuli, but its capacity to predict optimal antinociception is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine if NOL index change to a tetanic stimulus in cardiac and noncardiac surgery patients could predict the required remifentanil concentration for haemodynamic stability at skin incision. DESIGN A prospective two-phase cohort study. SETTING University hospital. PATIENTS Patients undergoing remifentanil-propofol target controlled infusion (TCI) anaesthesia. INTERVENTIONS During the calibration phase, investigators evaluated the tetanic stimulus induced NOL index change under standardised TCI remifentanil-propofol anaesthesia during a no-touch period [bispectral index (BIS) between 40 and 60, NOL index under 15]. If the NOL index change was 20 or greater following tetanic stimulation, investigators repeated the tetanus at higher remifentanil concentrations until the response was blunted. Surgeons incised the skin at this remifentanil concentration. The investigators derived a prediction model and in the validation phase calculated, using the NOL response to a single tetanus, the required incision remifentanil concentration for the start of surgery. MAIN OUTCOME Haemodynamic stability at incision [i.e. maximum heart rate (HR) < 20% increase from baseline, minimum HR (40 bpm) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) ± <20% of baseline]. RESULTS During the calibration phase, no patient had hypertension. Two patients had a HR increase slightly greater than 20% (25.4 and 26.7%) within the first 2 min of surgery, but neither of these two patients had a HR above 76 bpm. Two patients were slightly hypotensive after incision (MAP 64 and 73 mmHg). During the validation phase, neither tachycardia nor hypotension occurred, but MAP increased to 21.5% above baseline for one patient. CONCLUSION During a no-touch period in patients under steady-state general anaesthesia [propofol effect site concentration (Ce) required for BIS between 40 and 60], the NOL index response to a tetanic stimulus under remifentanil antinociception can be used to personalise remifentanil Ce for the start of surgery and ensure stable haemodynamics. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03324269.
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Electroencephalogram Features of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders in Elderly Patients: A Narrative Review of the Clinical Literature. Brain Sci 2022; 12:brainsci12081073. [PMID: 36009136 PMCID: PMC9405602 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12081073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Postoperative neurocognitive disorder (PND) is a common postoperative complication, particularly in older patients. Electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring, a non-invasive technique with a high spatial-temporal resolution, can accurately characterize the dynamic changes in brain function during the perioperative period. Current clinical studies have confirmed that the power density of alpha oscillation during general anesthesia decreased with age, which was considered to be associated with increased susceptibility to PND in the elderly. However, evidence on whether general anesthesia under EEG guidance results in a lower morbidity of PND is still contradictory. This is one of the reasons that common indicators of the depth of anesthesia were limitedly derived from EEG signals in the frontal lobe. The variation of multi-channel EEG features during the perioperative period has the potential to highlight the occult structural and functional abnormalities of the subcortical-cortical neurocircuit. Therefore, we present a review of the application of multi-channel EEG monitoring to predict the incidence of PND in older patients. The data confirmed that the abnormal variation in EEG power and functional connectivity between distant brain regions was closely related to the incidence and long-term poor outcomes of PND in older adults.
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Pleasants D, Zak R, Ashbrook LH, Zhang L, Tang C, Tran D, Wang M, Tabatabai S, Leung JM. Processed electroencephalography: impact of patient age and surgical position on intraoperative processed electroencephalogram monitoring of burst-suppression. J Clin Monit Comput 2022; 36:1099-1107. [PMID: 34245405 PMCID: PMC11046414 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-021-00741-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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We previously reported that processed EEG underestimated the amount of burst suppression compared to off-line visual analysis. We performed a follow-up study to evaluate the reasons for the discordance. Forty-five patients were monitored intraoperatively with processed EEG. A computer algorithm was used to convert the SedLine® (machine)-generated burst suppression ratio into a raw duration of burst suppression. The reference standard was a precise off-line measurement by two neurologists. We measured other potential variables that may affect machine accuracy such as age, surgery position, and EEG artifacts. Overall, the median duration of bust suppression for all study subjects was 15.4 min (Inter-quartile Range [IQR] = 1.0-20.1) for the machine vs. 16.1 min (IQR = 0.3-19.7) for the neurologists' assessment; the 95% limits of agreement fall within - 4.86 to 5.04 s for individual 30-s epochs. EEG artifacts did not affect the concordance between the two methods. For patients in prone surgical position, the machine estimates had significantly lower overall sensitivity (0.86 vs. 0.97; p = 0.038) and significantly wider limits of agreement ([- 4.24, 3.82] seconds vs. [- 1.36, 1.13] seconds, p = 0.001) than patients in supine position. Machine readings for younger patients (age < 65 years) had higher sensitivity (0.96 vs 0.92; p = 0.021) and specificity (0.99 vs 0.88; p = 0.007) for older patients. The duration of burst suppression estimated by the machine generally had good agreement compared with neurologists' estimation using a more precise off-line measurement. Factors that affected the concordance included patient age and position during surgery, but not EEG artifacts.
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- D Pleasants
- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Huang H, Han J, Li Y, Yang Y, Shen J, Fu Q, Chen Y. Early Serum Metabolism Profile of Post-operative Delirium in Elderly Patients Following Cardiac Surgery With Cardiopulmonary Bypass. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:857902. [PMID: 35754961 PMCID: PMC9226449 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.857902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background Cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is considered to be one of the surgical types with the highest incidence of post-operative delirium (POD). POD has been associated with a prolonged intensive care and hospital stay, long-term neurocognitive deterioration, and increased mortality. However, the specific pathogenesis of POD is still unclear. Untargeted metabolomics techniques can be used to understand the changes of serum metabolites in early POD to discover the relationship between serum metabolites and disease. Materials and Methods The present study recruited 58 elderly patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB. Serum was collected within the first 24 h after surgery. The Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) and ICU-CAM assessments were used to identify patients who experienced POD. All patients with normal post-operative cognitive assessment were included in the non-POD groups. Moreover, we collected serum from 20 healthy adult volunteers. We performed untargeted analyses of post-operative serum metabolites in all surgical groups, as well as serum metabolites in healthy non-surgical adults by using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC/MS) and analyzed metabolic profiles and related metabolites. Results The probability of POD after cardiac surgery were 31%. There were statistically significant differences in post-operative mechanical ventilation time, ICU stay time and post-operative hospital stay between POD and non-POD group (P < 0.05). And ICU stay time was an independent risk factor for POD. The analysis revealed that a total of 51 differentially expressed metabolites (DEMs) were identified by comparing the POD and non-POD group, mostly lipids and lipid-like molecules. Three phosphatidylinositol (PI) were down-regulated in POD group, i.e., PI [18:0/18:2 (9Z, 12Z)], PI [20:4 (8Z, 11Z, 14Z, 17Z)/18:0], and PI [18:1 (9Z)/20:3 (8Z, 11Z, 14Z)]. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis showed that three kinds of PI metabolites had the highest area under the curve (AUC), which were 0.789, 0.781, and 0.715, respectively. Correlation analysis showed that the expression of three PIs was negatively correlated with the incidence of POD. Conclusion Our findings suggest that lipid metabolism plays an important role in the serum metabolic profile of elderly patients with POD in the early post-operative period. Low serum lipid metabolic PI was associated with incidence of POD in elderly following cardiac bypass surgery, which may provide new insights into the pathogenesis of POD.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Taizhou Clinical Medical School of Nanjing Medical University (Taizhou People's Hospital), Taizhou, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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- Nanjing Red Cross Blood Center, Nanjing, China
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- Department of Anesthesiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
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Buren MA, Theologis A, Zuraek A, Behrends M, Clark AJ, Leung JM. Lidocaine Infusion for the Management of Postoperative Pain and Delirium (LIMPP): protocol for a randomised control trial. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e059416. [PMID: 35667730 PMCID: PMC9171272 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Postoperative delirium is a frequent adverse event following elective non-cardiac surgery. The occurrence of delirium increases the risk of functional impairment, placement to facilities other than home after discharge, cognitive impairment at discharge, as well as in-hospital and possibly long-term mortality. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of effective strategies to minimise the risk from modifiable risk factors, including postoperative pain control and the analgesic regimen. Use of potent opioids, currently the backbone of postoperative pain control, alters cognition and has been associated with an increased risk of postoperative delirium. Literature supports the intraoperative use of lidocaine infusions to decrease postoperative opioid requirements, however, whether the use of postoperative lidocaine infusions is associated with lower opioid requirements and subsequently a reduction in postoperative delirium has not been investigated. METHODS AND ANALYSIS The Lidocaine Infusion for the Management of Postoperative Pain and Delirium trial is a randomised, double-blinded study of a postoperative 48-hour infusion of lidocaine at 1.33 mg/kg/hour versus placebo in older patients undergoing major reconstructive spinal surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. Our primary outcome is incident delirium measured daily by the Confusion Assessment Method in the first three postoperative days. Secondary outcomes include delirium severity, changes in cognition, pain scores, opioid use, incidence of opioid related side effects and functional benefits including time to discharge and improved recovery from surgery. Lidocaine safety will be assessed with daily screening questionnaires and lidocaine plasma levels. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION This study protocol has been approved by the ethics board at the University of California, San Francisco. The results of this study will be published in a peer-review journal and presented at national conferences as poster or oral presentations. Participants wishing to know the results of this study will be contacted directly on data publication. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT05010148.
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- Marc Alan Buren
- Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Orthopedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Wright MC, Bunning T, Eleswarpu SS, Heflin MT, McDonald S, Lagoo-Deenadalayan S, Whitson H, Martinez-Camblor P, Deiner SG, Berger M. A Processed Electroencephalogram-Based Brain Anesthetic Resistance Index Is Associated With Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults: A Dual Center Study. Anesth Analg 2022; 134:149-158. [PMID: 34252066 PMCID: PMC8678136 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND Some older adults show exaggerated responses to drugs that act on the brain. The brain's response to anesthetic drugs is often measured clinically by processed electroencephalogram (EEG) indices. Thus, we developed a processed EEG-based measure of the brain's resistance to volatile anesthetics and hypothesized that low scores on it would be associated with postoperative delirium risk. METHODS We defined the Duke Anesthesia Resistance Scale (DARS) as the average bispectral index (BIS) divided by the quantity (2.5 minus the average age-adjusted end-tidal minimum alveolar concentration [aaMAC] inhaled anesthetic fraction). The relationship between DARS and postoperative delirium was analyzed in 139 older surgical patients (age ≥65) from Duke University Medical Center (n = 69) and Mt Sinai Medical Center (n = 70). Delirium was assessed by geriatrician interview at Duke, and by research staff utilizing the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) instrument at Mt Sinai. We examined the relationship between DARS and delirium and used the Youden index to identify an optimal low DARS threshold (for delirium risk), and its associated 95% bootstrap confidence bounds. We used multivariable logistic regression to examine the relationship between low DARS and delirium risk. RESULTS The relationship between DARS and delirium risk was nonlinear, with higher delirium risk at low DARS scores. A DARS threshold of 28.755 maximized the Youden index for the association between low DARS and delirium, with bootstrap 95% confidence bounds of 26.18 and 29.80. A low DARS (<28.755) was associated with increased delirium risk in multivariable models adjusting for site (odds ratio [OR] [95% confidence interval {CI}] = 4.30 [1.89-10.01]; P = .001), or site-plus-patient risk factors (OR [95% CI] = 3.79 [1.63-9.10]; P = .003). These associations with postoperative delirium risk remained significant when using the 95% bootstrap confidence bounds for the low DARS threshold (P < .05 for all). Further, a low DARS (<28.755) was associated with delirium risk after accounting for opioid, midazolam, propofol, phenylephrine, and ketamine dosage as well as site (OR [95% CI] = 4.21 [1.80-10.16]; P = .002). This association between low DARS and postoperative delirium risk after controlling for these other medications remained significant (P < .05) when using either the lower or the upper 95% bootstrap confidence bounds for the low DARS threshold. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate that an intraoperative processed EEG-based measure of lower brain anesthetic resistance (ie, low DARS) is independently associated with increased postoperative delirium risk in older surgical patients.
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- Anesthesiology Department, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC
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- Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC,Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC
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- Geriatrics and Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY,Anesthesiology Department, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY,Neurosurgery Department, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY,Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, New Hanover, New Hampshire
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- Anesthesiology Department, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC,Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC,Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham NC
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Ma K, Bebawy JF. Electroencephalographic Burst-Suppression, Perioperative Neuroprotection, Postoperative Cognitive Function, and Mortality: A Focused Narrative Review of the Literature. Anesth Analg 2021; 135:79-90. [PMID: 34871183 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Burst-suppression is an electroencephalographic pattern that results from a diverse array of pathophysiological causes and/or metabolic neuronal suppression secondary to the administration of anesthetic medications. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the physiological mechanisms that underlie the burst-suppression pattern and to present in a comprehensive way the available evidence both supporting and in opposition to the clinical use of this electroencephalographic pattern as a therapeutic measure in various perioperative settings.
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- Kan Ma
- From the *Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology & Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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Koch S, Windmann V, Chakravarty S, Kruppa J, Yürek F, Brown EN, Winterer G, Spies C. Perioperative Electroencephalogram Spectral Dynamics Related to Postoperative Delirium in Older Patients. Anesth Analg 2021; 133:1598-1607. [PMID: 34591807 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intraoperative electroencephalography (EEG) signatures related to the development of postoperative delirium (POD) in older patients are frequently studied. However, a broad analysis of the EEG dynamics including preoperative, postinduction, intraoperative and postoperative scenarios and its correlation to POD development is still lacking. We explored the relationship between perioperative EEG spectra-derived parameters and POD development, aiming to ascertain the diagnostic utility of these parameters to detect patients developing POD. METHODS Patients aged ≥65 years undergoing elective surgeries that were expected to last more than 60 minutes were included in this prospective, observational single center study (Biomarker Development for Postoperative Cognitive Impairment [BioCog] study). Frontal EEGs were recorded, starting before induction of anesthesia and lasting until recovery of consciousness. EEG data were analyzed based on raw EEG files and downloaded excel data files. We performed multitaper spectral analyses of relevant EEG epochs and further used multitaper spectral estimate to calculate a corresponding spectral parameter. POD assessments were performed twice daily up to the seventh postoperative day. Our primary aim was to analyze the relation between the perioperative spectral edge frequency (SEF) and the development of POD. RESULTS Of the 237 included patients, 41 (17%) patients developed POD. The preoperative EEG in POD patients was associated with lower values in both SEF (POD 13.1 ± 4.6 Hz versus no postoperative delirium [NoPOD] 17.4 ± 6.9 Hz; P = .002) and corresponding γ-band power (POD -24.33 ± 2.8 dB versus NoPOD -17.9 ± 4.81 dB), as well as reduced postinduction absolute α-band power (POD -7.37 ± 4.52 dB versus NoPOD -5 ± 5.03 dB). The ratio of SEF from the preoperative to postinduction state (SEF ratio) was ~1 in POD patients, whereas NoPOD patients showed a SEF ratio >1, thus indicating a slowing of EEG with loss of unconscious. Preoperative SEF, preoperative γ-band power, and SEF ratio were independently associated with POD (P = .025; odds ratio [OR] = 0.892, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.808-0.986; P = .029; OR = 0.568, 95% CI, 0.342-0.944; and P = .009; OR = 0.108, 95% CI, 0.021-0.568, respectively). CONCLUSIONS Lower preoperative SEF, absence of slowing in EEG while transitioning from preoperative state to unconscious state, and lower EEG power in relevant frequency bands in both these states are related to POD development. These findings may suggest an underlying pathophysiology and might be used as EEG-based marker for early identification of patients at risk to develop POD.
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- Susanne Koch
- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Technical Transfer Department, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Technical Transfer Department, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Berlin, Germany.,Department of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.,Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Sartorius A, Karl S, Zapp A, Putschögl F, Bumb JM, Reinwald J, Kranaster L, Aksay SS. Duration of Electroconvulsive Therapy Postictal Burst Suppression Is Associated With Time to Reorientation. J ECT 2021; 37:247-249. [PMID: 34294649 DOI: 10.1097/yct.0000000000000781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION A burst suppression pattern in the electroencephalogram represents a down-regulated brain state, which also occurs in the postictal phase of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Suppressive actions of the brain to terminate the seizure are thought to be necessary for the efficacy of ECT. On the other hand, recent studies showed an association of burst suppression in general anesthesia or sedation with (postprocedural) cognitive complications. METHODS We retrospectively examined the length of postictal burst suppression and reorientation time in 49 ECT sessions of 25 consecutive patients. Burst suppression duration was determined by bispectral index monitoring and defined as the time with a bispectral index value of less than 20%. The association between duration of burst suppression and reorientation time was analyzed with multivariate logistic and linear regression analysis controlling for several covariates. RESULTS The reorientation time showed a statistically significant association with the duration of burst suppression, but with no other variable. Longer phase of postictal burst suppression predicted longer reorientation time in the recovery room (P = 0.046). CONCLUSIONS The association between the duration of postictal burst suppression and reorientation time after ECT in this sample suggests that (not only the efficacy but also the) cognitive adverse effects of ECT might be related to the extent of postictal central inhibition after the termination of the seizure.
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- From the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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- Addictive Behaviour and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- From the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
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Coeckelenbergh S, Richebé P, Longrois D, Joosten A, De Hert S. Current trends in anesthetic depth and antinociception monitoring: an international survey. J Clin Monit Comput 2021; 36:1407-1422. [PMID: 34826017 DOI: 10.1007/s10877-021-00781-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Current trends in anesthetic depth (i.e., hypnosis) and antinociception monitoring are unclear. We thus aimed to determine contemporary perspectives on monitoring these components of anesthesia during general anesthesia. Participants received and responded anonymously to an internet-based international survey supported by the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care. Comparisons, when applicable, were carried out using Chi2 analysis or Fischer's exact test. A total of 564 respondents, predominantly from Europe (80.1%), participated. There was a strong participation from Belgium (11.5%). A majority (70.9%) of anesthetists considered hypnotic monitoring important on most occasions to always. In contrast, a majority (62.6%) never or only occasionally considered antinociception monitoring important. This difference in the perceived importance of anesthetic depth versus antinociception monitoring was significant (p < 0.0001). A majority of respondents (70.1%) believed that guiding hypnosis and antinociception using these monitors would improve patient care on most occasions to always. Nonetheless, a substantial number of participants were unsure if hypnotic (23%) or antinociception (32%) monitoring were recommended and there was a lack of knowledge (58%) of any published algorithms to titrate hypnotic and/or antinociceptive drugs based on the information provided by the monitors. In conclusion, current trends in European academic centers prioritize anesthesia depth over antinociception monitoring. Despite an agreement among respondents that applying strategies that optimize anesthetic depth and antinociception could improve outcome, there remains a lack of knowledge of appropriate algorithms. Future studies and recommendations should focus on clarifying goal-directed anesthetic strategies and determine their impact on perioperative patient outcome.
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- Sean Coeckelenbergh
- Department of Anesthesiology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital, CIUSSS de L'Est de L'Ile de Montréal (CEMTL), University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hôpital Bichat-Claude-Bernard, AP-HP. Nord-Université de Paris, Paris, France
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
- Department of Anesthesiology, Hôpital-Paul Brousse, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Acker L, Ha C, Zhou J, Manor B, Giattino CM, Roberts K, Berger M, Wright MC, Colon-Emeric C, Devinney M, Au S, Woldorff MG, Lipsitz LA, Whitson HE. Electroencephalogram-Based Complexity Measures as Predictors of Post-operative Neurocognitive Dysfunction. Front Syst Neurosci 2021; 15:718769. [PMID: 34858144 PMCID: PMC8631543 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2021.718769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2021] [Accepted: 10/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Physiologic signals such as the electroencephalogram (EEG) demonstrate irregular behaviors due to the interaction of multiple control processes operating over different time scales. The complexity of this behavior can be quantified using multi-scale entropy (MSE). High physiologic complexity denotes health, and a loss of complexity can predict adverse outcomes. Since postoperative delirium is particularly hard to predict, we investigated whether the complexity of preoperative and intraoperative frontal EEG signals could predict postoperative delirium and its endophenotype, inattention. To calculate MSE, the sample entropy of EEG recordings was computed at different time scales, then plotted against scale; complexity is the total area under the curve. MSE of frontal EEG recordings was computed in 50 patients ≥ age 60 before and during surgery. Average MSE was higher intra-operatively than pre-operatively (p = 0.0003). However, intraoperative EEG MSE was lower than preoperative MSE at smaller scales, but higher at larger scales (interaction p < 0.001), creating a crossover point where, by definition, preoperative, and intraoperative MSE curves met. Overall, EEG complexity was not associated with delirium or attention. In 42/50 patients with single crossover points, the scale at which the intraoperative and preoperative entropy curves crossed showed an inverse relationship with delirium-severity score change (Spearman ρ = -0.31, p = 0.054). Thus, average EEG complexity increases intra-operatively in older adults, but is scale dependent. The scale at which preoperative and intraoperative complexity is equal (i.e., the crossover point) may predict delirium. Future studies should assess whether the crossover point represents changes in neural control mechanisms that predispose patients to postoperative delirium.
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- Leah Acker
- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
- Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
- Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew Senior Life and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Gerontology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Duke Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
- Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Center, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States
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Phenylephrine or Ephedrine for Intraoperative Hypotension? Consider the Cerebral Microcirculation. Anesthesiology 2021; 135:775-777. [PMID: 34597387 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000003975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Obert DP, Hight D, Sleigh J, Kaiser HA, García PS, Schneider G, Kreuzer M. The First Derivative of the Electroencephalogram Facilitates Tracking of Electroencephalographic Alpha Band Activity During General Anesthesia. Anesth Analg 2021; 134:1062-1071. [PMID: 34677164 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000005783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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BACKGROUND Intraoperative neuromonitoring can help to navigate anesthesia. Pronounced alpha oscillations in the frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) appear to predict favorable perioperative neurocognitive outcomes and may also provide a measure of intraoperative antinociception. Monitoring the presence and strength of these alpha oscillations can be challenging, especially in elderly patients, because the EEG in these patients may be dominated by oscillations in other frequencies. Hence, the information regarding alpha oscillatory activity may be hidden and hard to visualize on a screen. Therefore, we developed an effective approach to improve the detection and presentation of alpha activity in the perioperative setting. METHODS We analyzed EEG records of 180 patients with a median age of 60 years (range, 18-90 years) undergoing noncardiac, nonneurologic surgery under general anesthesia with propofol induction and sevoflurane maintenance. We calculated the power spectral density (PSD) for the unprocessed EEG as well as for the time-discrete first derivative of the EEG (diffPSD) from 10-second epochs. Based on these data, we estimated the power-law coefficient κ of the PSD and diffPSD, as the EEG coarsely follows a 1/fκ distribution when displayed in double logarithmic coordinates. In addition, we calculated the alpha (7.8-12.1 Hz) to delta (0.4-4.3 Hz) ratio from the PSD as well as diffPSD. RESULTS The median κ was 0.899 [first and third quartile: 0.786, 0.986] for the unaltered PSD, and κ = -0.092 [-0.202, -0.013] for the diffPSD, corresponding to an almost horizontal PSD of the differentiated EEG. The alpha-to-delta ratio of the diffPSD was strongly increased (median ratio = -8.0 dB [-10.5, -4.7 dB] for the unaltered PSD versus 30.1 dB [26.1, 33.8 dB] for the diffPSD). A strong narrowband oscillatory alpha power component (>20% of total alpha power) was detected in 23% using PSD, but in 96% of the diffPSD. CONCLUSIONS We demonstrated that the calculation of the diffPSD from the time-discrete derivative of the intraoperative frontal EEG is a straightforward approach to improve the detection of alpha activity by eliminating the broadband background noise. This improvement in alpha peak detection and visualization could facilitate the guidance of general anesthesia and improve patient outcome.
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- David P Obert
- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Waikato Clinical School, University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, New York, New York
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany
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- From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine, Munich, Germany
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Milne B, Gilbey T, Gautel L, Kunst G. Neuromonitoring and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery: A Narrative Review. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2021; 36:2098-2113. [PMID: 34420812 DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2021.07.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2021] [Revised: 06/28/2021] [Accepted: 07/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Neurocognitive dysfunction after cardiac surgery can present with diverse clinical phenotypes, which include postoperative delirium, postoperative cognitive dysfunction, and stroke, and it presents a significant healthcare burden for both patients and providers. Neurologic monitoring during cardiac surgery includes several modalities assessing cerebral perfusion and oxygenation (near-infrared spectroscopy, transcranial Doppler and jugular venous bulb saturation monitoring) and those that measure cerebral function (processed and unprocessed electroencephalogram), reflecting an absence of a single, definitive neuromonitor. This narrative review briefly describes the technologic basis of these neuromonitoring modalities, before exploring their use in clinical practice, both as tools to predict neurocognitive dysfunction, and with a bundle of interventions designed to optimize cerebral oxygen supply, with the aim of reducing postoperative delirium and cognitive dysfunction following cardiac surgery.
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- Benjamin Milne
- Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; School of Biological Sciences in Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, London, UK
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- Department of Anaesthetics and Pain Medicine, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK; School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, London, UK.
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Shanker A, Abel JH, Schamberg G, Brown EN. Etiology of Burst Suppression EEG Patterns. Front Psychol 2021; 12:673529. [PMID: 34177731 PMCID: PMC8222661 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.673529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Burst-suppression electroencephalography (EEG) patterns of electrical activity, characterized by intermittent high-power broad-spectrum oscillations alternating with isoelectricity, have long been observed in the human brain during general anesthesia, hypothermia, coma and early infantile encephalopathy. Recently, commonalities between conditions associated with burst-suppression patterns have led to new insights into the origin of burst-suppression EEG patterns, their effects on the brain, and their use as a therapeutic tool for protection against deleterious neural states. These insights have been further supported by advances in mechanistic modeling of burst suppression. In this Perspective, we review the origins of burst-suppression patterns and use recent insights to weigh evidence in the controversy regarding the extent to which burst-suppression patterns observed during profound anesthetic-induced brain inactivation are associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Whether the clinical intent is to avoid or maintain the brain in a state producing burst-suppression patterns, monitoring and controlling neural activity presents a technical challenge. We discuss recent advances that enable monitoring and control of burst suppression.
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- Akshay Shanker
- Department of Anesthesiology, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Cambridge, MA, United States
- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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Burst-suppression and Postoperative Delirium: Reply. Anesthesiology 2021; 134:352-353. [PMID: 33433617 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000003632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Inadvertent Burst Suppression During Total Intravenous Anesthesia in 112 Consecutive Patients Undergoing Spinal Instrumentation Surgery: A Retrospective Observational Quality Improvement Project. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2021; 34:300-305. [PMID: 33470593 DOI: 10.1097/ana.0000000000000754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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INTRODUCTION The incidence and quantification of inadvertent electroencephalographic burst suppression during total intravenous anesthesia (TIVA) for spine instrumentation surgery has not previously been reported. METHODS The primary aim of this retrospective observational quality improvement project was to establish the prevalence of burst suppression during spine instrumentation surgery with TIVA. The secondary outcome was the incidence of postoperative delirium. RESULTS One hundred twelve consecutive patients, aged between 20 and 88 years, underwent spinal instrumentation surgery. Seventy-eight (69.6%) patients experienced inadvertent burst suppression; the maximal degree of burst suppression ratio was 20% to 100%. Median (interquartile range [IQR]) time spent in burst suppression was 44 (77) minutes, and burst suppression was present for 22% (range: 2% to 93%) of the monitoring period. Average (±SD) propofol dose was lower in patients with burst suppression (87±19 vs. 93±15 µg/kg/min, P=0.04). Ten (8.9%) patients experienced postoperative delirium. Intraoperative burst suppression was more prevalent in those that experienced delirium (100% vs. 66.7%, P=0.03, relative risk: 1.5, 95% confidence interval: 1.3-1.7). The proportion of the monitoring period spent in maximal burst suppression (15.3 [25.9]% vs.11.7 [21.7]%) was similar between those that did, and did not, experience delirium. CONCLUSIONS High rates and prolonged periods of inadvertent burst suppression may be prevalent during spine instrumentation surgery with TIVA. Our findings suggest that usage of electroencephalography alone is incomplete without prompt interpretation and intervention, mandating close communication between neuromonitoring and anesthesia teams. The dose-response relationship between burst suppression, total time spent in maximal burst suppression, and their association with delirium warrants further evaluation.
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Evered LA, Goldstein PA. Reducing Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders (PND) Through Depth of Anesthesia Monitoring: A Critical Review. Int J Gen Med 2021; 14:153-162. [PMID: 33469352 PMCID: PMC7813450 DOI: 10.2147/ijgm.s242230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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General anesthesia has been administered for over 150 years, and in that time, has become progressively safer. Improvements in outcomes have been driven by multiple advances, including the use of non-invasive monitors to assess cardiovascular and respiratory status. More recent advances have included the development and use of monitors to measure neurologic status by means of “processed” electroencephalography (pEEG), wherein the frontal EEG signal is analyzed by proprietary algorithms to produce a dimensionless number (scaled from 0 to 100), wherein low values are associated with deepening levels of sedation that progresses to loss of consciousness. Such monitors have been shown to enable anesthetic titration so as to expedite emergence and early recovery, and their use is advocated for the prevention of intraoperative awareness in the setting of administration of total intravenous anesthesia and neuromuscular blockade. Whether their use can minimize, or prevent, longer term adverse events is a matter of debate. In this narrative review of the most recent literature, we provide an assessment on the use of pEEG monitors in the prevention of a notable, and important, postoperative adverse outcome – delirium – in elderly patients. As we will discuss, the existing data do not support its routine use for the prevention of postoperative delirium in this, or any other, patient population.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lisbeth A Evered
- Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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