Potential EEG biomarkers of sedation doses in intensive care patients unveiled by using a machine learning approach.

Journal: Journal of neural engineering
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Sedation of neurocritically ill patients is one of the most challenging situation in ICUs. Quantitative knowledge on the sedation effect on brain activity in that complex scenario could help to uncover new markers for sedation assessment. Hence, we aim to evaluate the existence of changes of diverse EEG-derived measures in deeply-sedated (RASS-Richmond agitation-sedation scale  -4 and  -5) neurocritically ill patients, and also whether sedation doses are related with those eventual changes.

Authors

  • Ancor Sanz-García
    Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria, Hospital de la Princesa, Madrid, España.
  • Miriam Pérez-Romero
  • Jesús Pastor
  • Rafael G Sola
  • Lorena Vega-Zelaya
  • Gema Vega
  • Fernando Monasterio
  • Carmen Torrecilla
  • Paloma Pulido
  • Guillermo J Ortega