British journal of anaesthesia
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
Concurrent recording of AEP, SSEP and EEG parameters during anaesthesia: a factor analysis.
Spontaneous EEG, mid-latency auditory evoked potentials (AEP) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) have been used to monitor anaesthesia. This poses the question as to whether or not EEG, AEP and SSEP vary in parallel with varying conditions during surgical anaesthesia. ⋯ EEG, AEP and SSEP measure different aspects of neural processing during anaesthesia. This gives rise to the hypothesis that simultaneous monitoring of these quantities may give additional information compared with the monitoring of each quantity alone.