Intervention Protocol

Anaesthetic interventions for prevention of awareness during surgery

  1. Anthony G. Messina1,*,
  2. Marshall J Ward2,
  3. Nathan Leon Pace3

Editorial Group: Cochrane Anaesthesia Group

Published Online: 8 OCT 2008

DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007272

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Messina AG, Ward MJ, Pace NL. Anaesthetic interventions for prevention of awareness during surgery (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD007272. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007272.

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  1. 1

    University of Utah, Public Health Programs, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

  2. 2

    Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH, USA

  3. 3

    University of Utah, Department of Anesthesiology, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

*Anthony G. Messina, Public Health Programs, University of Utah, 375 Chipeta Way, Suite A, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84108, USA. agm246@msn.com.

Publication History

  1. Publication Status: Edited (no change to conclusions)
  2. Published Online: 8 OCT 2008

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This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows:

The objective of this review is to evaluate the efficacy of two types of anaesthetic interventions on reducing clinically significant awareness:

  1. anaesthetic drug regimens; and
  2. intraoperative anaesthetic depth monitors (ADM).

Categories of anaesthetic drug regimens include: (1) intravenous (IV); (2) pure inhalational, including the following subgroups: (2a) inhalation used for induction and maintenance, (2b) IV induction and inhalational maintenance, where the IV induction or inhalational agent for maintenance are varied; (3) inhalational with narcotics as compared to a 'pure' inhalational technique; (4) all of the above regimens with and without muscle relaxants (MRs); (5) any of these previous techniques with regional anaesthesia.

ADMs include: Bispectral index (BIS) monitor, Narcotrend monitor, cerebral function monitor, cerebral state monitor, patient state index, and lower oesophageal contractility monitor.

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