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Some brain cells start dying within five minutes after the oxygen supply disappears, and brain hypoxia can rapidly cause severe brain damage or death. 1,2) In malpractice cases I’ve consulted on, a five-minute window is an accepted duration for low bloodoxygenlevels to cause permanent brain damage.
In addition to monitoring the patient’s EEG level of consciousness (via a BIS monitor device called NeuroSENSE), this new device monitors traditional vitalsigns such as bloodoxygenlevels, heart rate, respiratory rate, and blood pressure, to determine how much anesthesia to deliver.
The Glidescope, sugammadex, ultrasound-guided blocks, and the time-consuming Electronic Medical Record arrived, but we typically administer the same medications, use the same airway tubes, and watch the same vitalsigns monitors as we did in the 1990s. Why have there been no new anesthetics?
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