Central Nervous System Monitoring in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Eberhard Kochs ist Direktor der Klinik für Anaesthesiologie der Technischen Universität München, Klinikum rechts der Isar.

I Monitoring of the Electroencephalogram-Fundamentals.- Interactions of Anesthetics at Different Levels of the Central Nervous System.- Principles of Central Nervous System Monitoring in Humans.- II Techniques and Applications ofElectroencephalogram-Monitoring.- Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Interactions Relevant To Cerebral Monitoring.- Electroencephalographic Feedback Control of Anesthetic Drug Administration.- The Use of Processed EEG in the Operating Room.- Bispectral Electroencephalogram Analysis for Monitoring Anesthetic Adequacy.- Does Spectral Edge Frequency Assess Depth of Anesthesia?.- "Paradoxical Arousal" During Isoflurane/Nitrous Oxide Anesthesia: Quantitative Topographical EEG Analysis.- Central Nervous System Monitoring; Reduction of Information Content of Quantitative Electroencephalograms for Continuous On-Line Display During Anesthesia.- III Monitoring of Stimulus Evoked Responses.- Central Evoked Brain Potential as Overall Control of Afferent Systems.- Indication for Evoked Potential Monitoring: A Surgical View.- Anesthesia and Somatosensory Evoked Responses.- Peri-operative Anesthesiological Monitoring of Auditory-Evoked Potentials.- The 40-Hz Auditory Steady State Response for Monitoring Level of Consciousness: Methodological Considerations.- Motor Evoked Potentials.- IV Evoked Response: Special Applications.- Auditory Evoked Potentials to Monitor Intra-operative Awareness.- Evoked Potential Monitoring for Vascular Surgery.- Assessment of Analgesic Drug Treatment.- Long-Term Monitoring in Intensive Care Patients: Electroencephalogram, Evoked Responses, and Brain Mapping.- V Present and Future Trends in Cerebral Monitoring.- Present and Future Trends in Multimodal Cerebral Monitoring in Anesthesia and Intensive Care.- Jugular Bulb VenousOxygen Saturation and Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography in Neurosurgical Patients.- Transcranial Doppler Sonography: Monitoring of Cerebral Perfusion.- BRAINDEX-An Expert System for Supporting Brain Death Diagnosis.