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- Personalized Anaesthesia
- Personalized Anaesthesia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Section 1 Basic Principles
- Section 2 Targeting Effects
- 7 Hypnotic Effect: Inducing Unconsciousness and Emergence from Anaesthesia
- 8 Analgesia: Effects on Response to Nociceptive Stimulation
- 9 Personalized Sedation and Analgesia
- 10 Respiratory Depression
- 11 Immobility
- 12 Effects on Brain Function
- 13 Targeted and Individualized Perioperative Medicine for Cognitive Dysfunction
- 14 Cardiac and Haemodynamic Function
- 15 Effects of Anaesthesia on Thermoregulation
- 16 Effects of Perioperative Management on Kidney Function
- 17 Effects on Liver Function
- 18 Effects on Fluid Balance
- 19 Ventilation during General Anaesthesia
- 20 Epilogue: Artificial Intelligence Methods
- Index
- References
12 - Effects on Brain Function
from Section 2 - Targeting Effects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 December 2019
- Personalized Anaesthesia
- Personalized Anaesthesia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Section 1 Basic Principles
- Section 2 Targeting Effects
- 7 Hypnotic Effect: Inducing Unconsciousness and Emergence from Anaesthesia
- 8 Analgesia: Effects on Response to Nociceptive Stimulation
- 9 Personalized Sedation and Analgesia
- 10 Respiratory Depression
- 11 Immobility
- 12 Effects on Brain Function
- 13 Targeted and Individualized Perioperative Medicine for Cognitive Dysfunction
- 14 Cardiac and Haemodynamic Function
- 15 Effects of Anaesthesia on Thermoregulation
- 16 Effects of Perioperative Management on Kidney Function
- 17 Effects on Liver Function
- 18 Effects on Fluid Balance
- 19 Ventilation during General Anaesthesia
- 20 Epilogue: Artificial Intelligence Methods
- Index
- References
Summary
Surgery and anaesthesia alter the function of the brain and its control mechanisms. In the operating room, we daily observe the effects of anaesthetic agents during induction and recovery from anaesthesia: changes in the electroencephalogram, on consciousness, muscle tone as well as in the responses to different stimulations that immediately disappear after induction, and reappear gradually when anaesthetic effects wear off. To prevent short- or long-term functional changes of the brain, the parameters of its physiological defence mechanisms must be maintained within the patient’s normal range. Failing to do so might lead to complications that can significantly alter patient outcome.
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- Personalized AnaesthesiaTargeting Physiological Systems for Optimal Effect, pp. 175 - 196Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020