Some clinicians are urging dentists to use a new method to better monitor sedated dental patients after a 5-year-old boy didn't wake up for an hour following intravenous sedation. The correspondence ...

Intravenous anesthesia and sedation techniques have undergone significant evolution in recent years, driven by the need for rapid onset, improved safety profiles, and enhanced recovery characteristics ...

We have undertaken a case review using the Bispectral index monitoring (BIS, Covidien—Medtronic, Boulder, CO, USA) in vitrectomy surgery under local anaesthesia, and would suggest that it may have a ...

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...

The BIS monitor measures muscular and cortical activity using a single, small, flexible sensor that is applied to the forehead and temporal region. The monitor produces a value every 15 seconds that ...