Objective: The study's aim was to compare Response (RE) and State Entropy (SE) with Bispectral Index (BIS) electroencephalography (EEG) as an alternative cerebral monitoring tool in patients scheduled for coronary artery bypass graft surgery.Design: Prospective, observational single-center study
Setting: University HospitalParticipants: Thirty patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery receiving remifentanil-propofol anaesthesia.Interventions Surgery was performed with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and cardiac arrest in fifteen patients, with CPB without cardiac arrest in nine patients and without CPB in six patients.
Measurements and Main results RE, SE, BIS, burst suppression ratio (BSR) and frontalelectromyography (f-EMG) were detected simultaneously. RE and SE compared favorably to BIS and their correlations were strong (r 2 = 0.6, r 2 = 0.55, respectively). Mean bias of RE and BIS was -1.8, but limits of agreement were high (+20.5/-24.1). RE and SE tended to be lower than the BIS values in the CPB subgroups. Detection of BSR was similar with RE and SE, and the BIS. A strong correlation existed between BIS and f-EMG (r 2 = 0.62), in contrast to RE (r 2 = 0.45) and SE (r 2 =0.39). BIS monitoring was significantly more disturbed than RE and SE with 9.1 ±10.9% and 0.1±0.2% of the total anesthesia time, respectively. Neither implicit nor explicit memory was demonstrated.Conclusion RE and SE are comparable with the BIS but showed significantly less interference from f-EMG and superior resistance against artefacts. Thus, Spectral Entropy is more suitable than the BIS during propfol-remifentanil anesthesia in cardiac surgery patients.
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