Open AccessAwareness of bispectral index monitoring system among the critical care nursing personnel in a tertiary care hospital of India
Author(s) -
Shikha Thakur,
Tarandeep Kaur,
Sukhpal Kaur,
Hemant Bhagat,
Sandhya Narayanan,
Neerja Bhardwaj,
Jai Dev Wig
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of anaesthesia/indian journal of anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.645
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 0976-2817
pISSN - 0019-5049
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5049.90609
Subject(s) - medicine , sedation , intensive care unit , bispectral index , sedative , nursing , nursing care , hypnosis , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , anesthesia , alternative medicine , pathology
Bispectral index monitoring system (BIS) is one of the several systems used to measure the effects of anaesthetic and sedative drugs on the brain and to track changes in the patient's level of sedation and hypnosis. BIS monitoring provides information clinically relevant to the adjustment of dosages of sedating medication. It can help the nursing personnel in preventing under- and over sedation among intensive care unit (ICU) patients.