Minimum alveolar concentration: ongoing relevance and clinical utility

“Triple Low”

(2012) Sachin Kheterpal et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Hospital Stay and Mortality Are Increased in Patients Having a “Triple Low” of Low Blood Pressure, Low Bispectral Index, and Low Minimum Alveolar Concentration of Volatile Anesthesia

(2012) Daniel I. Sessler et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Prevention of Intraoperative Awareness with Explicit Recall in an Unselected Surgical Population

(2012) George A. Mashour et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Unresponsiveness ≠ Unconsciousness

(2012) Robert D. Sanders et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Amnesia, Anesthesia, and Warranted Fear

(2012) Vanessa Carbonell   BIOETHICS

Minimal alveolar concentration of sevoflurane inhibiting the reflex pupillary dilatation after noxious stimulation in children and young adults

(2012) E. Bourgeois et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA

BIS-guided Anesthesia Decreases Postoperative Delirium and Cognitive Decline

(2012) Matthew T.V. Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGICAL ANESTHESIOLOGY

Optimised Anaesthesia to Reduce Post Operative Cognitive Decline (POCD) in Older Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery, a Randomised Controlled Trial

(2012) Clive Ballard et al.   PLoS One

Determination of Minimum Alveolar Concentration for Isoflurane and Sevoflurane in a Rodent Model of Human Metabolic Syndrome

(2011) Dinesh Pal et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

Bispectral Index Monitoring, Duration of Bispectral Index Below 45, Patient Risk Factors, and Intermediate-term Mortality after Noncardiac Surgery in the B-Unaware Trial

(2011) Miklos D. Kertai et al.   ANESTHESIOLOGY

Consciousness lost and found: Subjective experiences in an unresponsive state

(2011) Valdas Noreika et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Prevention of Intraoperative Awareness in a High-Risk Surgical Population

(2011) Michael S. Avidan et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Aware Patients from the B-Aware Trial

(2010) Kate Leslie et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

Inhaled Anesthetic Potency in Aged Alzheimer Mice

(2010) Shannon L. Bianchi et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

Transgenic Alzheimer Mice Have a Larger Minimum Alveolar Anesthetic Concentration of Isoflurane than Their Nontransgenic Littermates

(2010) Barbara Eckel et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

How we recall (or don’t): the hippocampal memory machine and anesthetic amnesia

(2010) Misha Perouansky et al.   Canadian Journal of Anesthesia-Journal canadien d anesthesie

Effects of propofol on the minimum alveolar concentration of sevoflurane for immobility at skin incision in adult patients

(2010) Lin-Li Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ANESTHESIA

A Conserved Behavioral State Barrier Impedes Transitions between Anesthetic-Induced Unconsciousness and Wakefulness: Evidence for Neural Inertia

(2010) Eliot B. Friedman et al.   PLoS One

Awareness During Anesthesia: Risk Factors, Causes and Sequelae: A Review of Reported Cases in the Literature

(2009) Mohamed M. Ghoneim et al.   ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA

Anesthesia Awareness and the Bispectral Index

(2008) Michael S. Avidan et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE