Evaluation of Instrumented Force Platform as a Test to Measure Residual Effects of Anesthetics 

Evaluation of postural stability by computerised posturography following outpatient paediatric anaesthesia. Comparison of propofol/alfentanil/ N2O anaesthesia with thiopentone/halothane/N2O anaesthesia

“…Korttila and coworkers studied recovery after i.v. thiopentone, methohexitone and diazepam by analysing the frequency content of the signal, and confirmed the validity of posturography in the evaluation of residual effects of the drugs (23). No significant body sway was noted after methohexitone compared with normal saline, whereas thiopentone was associated with increased sway up to 1 h later, and diazepam up to 7 h after administration.…”

Assessment of the recovery of dynamic balance after intravenous sedation with midazolam

“…However, some studies have suggested low reliability of both tests [4,5]. Therefore, studies by computerized static posturography (CSP) have been performed to assess balance function more objectively and precisely [4][5][6].…”

“…However, some studies have suggested low reliability of both tests [4,5]. Therefore, studies by computerized static posturography (CSP) have been performed to assess balance function more objectively and precisely [4][5][6]. Although computerized dynamic posturography (CDP) with movement of the center of gravity is more appropriate than CSP to determine whether safe discharge by walking is possible, there have been only a few studies that evaluated the recovery process of dynamic balance by CDP in comparison with CSP [7][8][9], and there have been no studies in which detailed evaluation was performed at short intervals.…”

Body sway and the effects of psychoactive drugs — a review

“…In anaesthesia, body sway has been used to assess recovery (Green et al, 1963;Goldman and Kennedy, 1964;Swerdlow and Moore, 1967;Korttila et al, 1975). Objective measurement of sway has been successfully used to quantify recovery from intravenous thiopental (Vickers, 1965, Eriksen et al, 1981Korttila et al, 1981), propranidid (Eriksen et al, 1978) and diazepam (Kortilla et al, 1981) but was not successful with methohexital (Kortilla et al, 1981). Sway has also been shown to be increased after perivascular axillary block with the local anaesthetic mepivacaine (Kjaergard et al, 1984).…”