It is undisputed that anaesthesia can be too shallow or too deep. Many doctors are also aware of the uncertainty surrounding whether the chosen depth of anaesthesia was actually optimal. But what significance does this have for patient safety?

Can EEG-based monitoring of anaesthesia depth help to reduce post-operative complications such as delirium? Is there a reliable correlation between very deep anaesthesia and hospital mortality? And how reliably can intraoperative awareness be prevented? Is balanced anaesthesia with volatile anaesthetics (anaesthetics administered as a gas via the respiratory tract) sufficient for this? Is measuring brain activity via a frontal EEG sufficient to reliably detect consciousness?

Finally, there is also the question of what influence muscle relaxants have on the assessment of anaesthesia depth and how reliable measurement methods are under these conditions.

In this specialist lecture, Prof. Dr. R. Ellerkmann from Dortmund Hospital will examine the possibilities and limitations of anaesthesia depth measurement based on the available literature and will also discuss new findings from DSA (Density Spectral Array) analysis of the EEG.

The digital live event is part of the AINS colloquium, which offers doctors and nursing staff high-quality training events in the fields of anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine, pain and palliative medicine.

Registration is necessary.