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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007 99(4):592-593; doi:10.1093/bja/aem235
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2007. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A similar BIS value does not mean a similar depth of anaesthesia

I. F. Russell

Hull, UK

E-mail: i.f.russell@hull.ac.uk

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Editor—The recent editorial1 and accompanying two studies2 3 provide more intriguing information as regards the complex nature of general anaesthesia. However, there are two aspects of the terminology used within the papers which I believe have the potential to cause confusion.

First, there is the suggestion that equi-anaesthetic concentrations of a drug can be defined by the same bispectral index (BIS) value. I have no concerns if an author's methodology describes titrating anaesthetic drugs to a particular BIS value, but authors should not believe . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. Mourisse*, J. Lerou and J. Bruhn

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

* E-mail: j.mourisse@anes.umcn.nl


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