Is the Patient State Index Recorded with the Sedline Sedation Monitor Correlated with the Duration of Emergence After Pediatric Surgery: An Exploratory, Single-center, Blinded, Prospective Cohort Study

2023-03-01 anesthesia Title + abstract only

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IntroductionFollowing surgery with general anesthesia, some children experience a prolonged emergence. We designed a prospective observational study in children undergoing general anesthesia who were monitored with the SedLine(R) Sedation Monitoring system (Masimo Corporation, Irvine, CA) to explore the hypothesis that the Patient State Index (PSI) obtained with this monitor could be inversely correlated with the duration of emergence after anesthesia. Materials and methodsProspective, observat...