Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 313-325 , September 2007

Monitoring consciousness: the current status of EEG-based depth of anaesthesia monitors

  • Logan Voss, PhD (Senior Research Scientist)

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Anaesthesia, Waikato Clinical School, University of Auckland, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tel.: +64 7 8398899; Fax: +64 7 8398761.
  • Jamie Sleigh, MD, MBChB, FANZCA, FJFICM (Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care)

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PII: S1521-6896(07)00035-3

doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2007.04.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 313-325 , September 2007

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