Pro-Con Debate : Electroencephalography-Guided Anesthesia for Reducing Postoperative Delirium

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Postoperative delirium (POD) has significant implications on morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditures. Monitoring electroencephalography (EEG) to adjust anesthetic management has gained interest as a strategy to mitigate POD. In this Pro-Con commentary article, the pro side supports the use of EEG to reduce POD, citing an empiric reduction in POD with processed EEG (pEEG)-guided general anesthesia found in several studies and recent meta-analysis. The Electroencephalography Guidance of Anesthesia to Alleviate Geriatric Syndromes (ENGAGES) trial is the exception to this, and issues with methods and achieved depths are discussed. Meanwhile, the Con side advocates that the use of EEG to reduce POD is not yet certain, citing that there is a lack of evidence that associations between anesthetic depth and POD represent causal relationships. The Con side also contends that the ideal EEG signatures to guide anesthetic titration are currently unknown, and the potential benefits of reduced anesthesia levels may be outweighed by the risks of potentially insufficient anesthetic administration. As the public health burden of POD increases, anesthesia clinicians will be tasked to consider interventions to mitigate risk such as EEG. This Pro-Con debate will provide 2 perspectives on the evidence and rationales for using EEG to mitigate POD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:137

Enthalten in:

Anesthesia and analgesia - 137(2023), 5 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 976-982

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Hao, David [VerfasserIn]
Fritz, Bradley A [VerfasserIn]
Saddawi-Konefka, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Palanca, Ben Julian A [VerfasserIn]

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Anesthetics
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 02.11.2023

Date Revised 04.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1213/ANE.0000000000006399

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363547460