Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 340-345 , August 2010

Impact of deep hypothermic circulatory arrest on the BIS index

  • Stephan Ziegeler, MD (Staff Anesthesiologist)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Heiko Buchinger, MD (Staff Anesthesiologist)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
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  • Wolfram Wilhelm, MD (Director)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Klinikum Luenen-St.-Marien-Hospital, 44534 Luenen, Germany
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  • Reinhard Larsen, MD (Director)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany
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  • Sascha Kreuer, MD (Staff Anesthesiologist)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University of Saarland, 66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany

Received 7 January 2008 ,Revised 4 September 2009 ,Accepted 26 September 2009.

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 Presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 20, 2005.

☆☆ Received from the Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany.

 Supported solely by departmental funding. None of the authors has any potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0952-8180(10)00167-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2009.09.007

Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Volume 22, Issue 5 , Pages 340-345 , August 2010