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        <author>Plourde</author>
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          <title>Auditory evoked potentials</title>
          <date>2006</date>
          <publisher>Best Practice &amp; Research Clinical Anaesthesiology</publisher>
          <idno type="DOI">10.1016/j.bpa.2005.07.012</idno>
          
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        <label>auditory evoked potentials as a measure of anaesthetic depth</label>
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        <term>at ~40 stimuli per second each new stimulus arrives during wave Pa of the preceding response, so successive middle-latency responses overlap and progressively build up into the steady-state response</term>
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        <term>the 40 Hz ASSR is generated partly by anesthetic-sensitive synchronization of naturally occurring neuronal rhythms, and/or anesthetics disrupt the superimposition process by non-uniformly changing the refractory periods of AMLR components</term>
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        <term>general anesthetics abolish consciousness by interfering with thalamocortical 40 Hz rhythms, which is why the 40 Hz response and consciousness disappear together</term>
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        <label>Scope restricted to human studies for reasons of space</label>
        <note>what this limits: the scope of the review: BECAUSE OF SPACE CONSTRAINTS, THIS REVIEW WILL BE LIMITED TO HUMAN STUDIES</note>
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        <label>The association between ASSR attenuation and loss of consciousness is correlational, not demonstrated to be functional</label>
        <note>what this limits: any use of the 40 Hz ASSR as a consciousness monitor: THESE OBSERVATIONS SUGGEST BUT DO NOT PROVE THAT THERE IS FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ATTENUATION OF THE 40 HZ ASSR AND LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS</note>
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        <label>Applicability to real-world multi-drug anaesthetic regimens is untested</label>
        <note>what this limits: clinical application specifically: APPLICABILITY [to the] MULTI-DRUG REGIMEN COMMONLY SEEN IN CLINICAL PRACTICE REMAINS TO BE ASSESSED</note>
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        <label>Whether ASSR parameters other than amplitude could support titration has not been examined</label>
        <note>what this limits: the amplitude measure only: whether ASSR parameters other than amplitude could support titration has not been examined</note>
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        <label>The monitor and the patient&#x27;s state may both be effects of the drug rather than related to each other, and the review says so of its own subject.</label>
        <note>what this limits: a 40 Hz ASSR or AMLR reading used to infer that a patient is unconscious: the review states both the response and the loss of consciousness could be effects of the anaesthetic that are otherwise functionally independent</note>
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        <label>The supporting evidence is explicitly said to fall short of proof.</label>
        <note>what this limits: the claim that attenuation of the 40 Hz ASSR indicates loss of consciousness: the review states the observations suggest but do not prove a functional relationship</note>
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        <label>Whole components of the response are excluded from clinical use for being TOO sensitive, so the monitored signal is selected for stability rather than for sensitivity.</label>
        <note>what this limits: the auditory evoked potentials used in anaesthetic monitoring: slow and late responses are excluded as too sensitive to anaesthetic effect for routine clinical monitoring</note>
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        <label>40 Hz ASSR as an index of consciousness - AS CORRELATION: a fairly reliable measure of the level of consciousness, on evidence the review calls suggestive but not probative</label>
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        <label>40 Hz ASSR as an index of consciousness - AS TESTED BY DISSOCIATION: consciousness was restored with the anaesthetic concentration held constant, and the response returned to awake baseline</label>
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        <label>contradicts → Pockett et al.3</label>
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        <label>contradicts → Galambos et al.42 (the 40 Hz ASSR as superimposition of the AMLR)</label>
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        <label>level of consciousness —operationalised-as→ 40 Hz ASSR</label>
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        <term>40 Hz ASSR</term>
        <note>strength of the relation: 1</note>
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        <label>Most volatile and intravenous general anesthetics lengthen the latency and reduce the amplitude of the auditory middle latency response, and do so in proportion to concentration.</label>
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        <label>Nitrous oxide and ketamine leave the main AMLR components unchanged even at concentrations that produce unconsciousness.</label>
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        <label>Unlike other anesthetics, ketamine increased the amplitude of the 40 Hz steady-state response.</label>
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        <label>Reversing anesthetic hypnosis with physostigmine raises the 40 Hz ASSR in proportion to the behavioural reversal, so ASSR attenuation seems to reflect impaired consciousness.</label>
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        <label>The 40 Hz ASSR amplitude does not appear useful for titrating anesthetic dose, because it is already markedly reduced at loss of consciousness.</label>
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        <label>The AMLR is suggested to reflect the balance between anesthetic suppression and brain activation caused by noxious stimulation.</label>
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        <label>2.1 ng/ml — sufentanil concentration producing half-maximal suppression of the 40 Hz ASSR</label>
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        <label>10 of 11 — propofol-anesthetized volunteers in whom physostigmine restored consciousness</label>
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