Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Selected Highlights from Research Findings
The intraoperative use of the EEG enables the anaesthetist to identify the level of anaesthesia, the type of anaesthetics used, as well as complications, i.e. cerebral hypoxia. In this study we focussed on the ability of the quantitative EEG and entropy to distinguish between the surgical level, nearly awake and awake state. It was found that entropy had a very high sensitivity and specificity to distinguish between these different states, whereas no QEEG parameter demonstrated reliability in distinguishing between the asleep and awake states.
Contact person: Prof PR Bartel.
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