Tag Audrey E. Spelde MD

Central Nervous System Monitoring

Key Points 1. Cardiac surgery–associated brain injury is common, multifactorial, and often preventable. 2. Electroencephalography can detect both cerebral ischemia or hypoxia and seizures and can measure hypnotic effect. 3. Middle-latency auditory-evoked potentials objectively document inadequate hypnosis. 4. Brainstem auditory-evoked…