CEREBRAL MONITORING IN ANESTHESIA AND INT ENSIVE-CARE MEDICINE

To ensure efficient computer-based cerebral monitoring in the ICU and during anaesthesia, sophisticated and sometimes expensive equipment is needed. It is thus all the more important that the clinician should h ave a good understanding and knowledge of the various methods involved , the origins of the different signals and their relationships, and of the possibilities of artefacts occurring, if the information that thi s equipment is capable of providing is to be fully and properly utiliz ed. The present paper describes a number of new techniques of cerebral monitoring, and their successful application in the intensive care un it and the operating theatre.