Prevention of Intraoperative Awareness in a High-Risk Surgical Population
Why the study?
Does the BIS protocol prevent intraoperative awareness compared to ETAC in a high-risk surgical population?
Structured PICO
Does the BIS protocol prevent intraoperative awareness compared to ETAC in a high-risk surgical population?
P
Population
High-risk surgical population
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Intervention
BIS protocol
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Comparator
ETAC group
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Outcome
Intraoperative awarenesssafety
The BIS protocol was not superior to the ETAC protocol for the prevention of intraoperative awareness in high-risk surgical patients.
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Implication
BIS not superior to ETAC for awareness prevention in high-risk surgery; challenges expectations and leaves open need for randomized trials.
Cite This Study
Avidan et al. (2011) studied this question.