Articles: function.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Sep 2015
Observational StudyAcute alcohol intoxication and bispectral index monitoring.
Bispectral index (BIS) monitoring is commonly used to decrease the risk of awareness during anaesthesia. We aimed to determine the relationship between blood alcohol concentration and brain function (as measured by BIS) in healthy adults. ⋯ In healthy young adults, we found a moderate correlation between venous blood alcohol concentration and BIS. This suggests that acute alcohol consumption can decrease BIS. This information may be relevant when providing anaesthesia to intoxicated patients who require urgent or time-critical surgery, although certain limitations of this study should be kept in mind.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Sep 2015
Review[Intraoperative neuroprotection - influence of the anaesthesiological management].
Perioperative neurofunctional disorders may become clinically apparent as e.g. perioperative stroke (POS) or postoperative cognitive deficit (POCD). Newly diagnosed neuro-functional disorders are associated with worsening of postoperative outcome. Focus of this review article is on the possibilities of the intraoperative anaesthesiological management to favourably influence incidence and severity of neurological complications and to improve postoperative outcome.
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The authors designed 2 experiments to examine the commonality of the N170 component involved in processing faces and nonface objects of expertise. ⋯ These results suggest that not only is there some commonality of N170 response elicited by face and nonface objects of expertise but also the kinds of functions associated with the N170 neural selectivity to faces were more than that to nonface expert objects.