Intraoperative burst suppression and emergence delirium in pediatric
A prospective observational study.
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
Reviewed April 2026 by Dr Megan Wellbeloved
Following the premise that intraoperative burst suppression has been associated with postoperative delirium in adults these authors aimed to investigate whether intraoperative burst (IBS) suppression...
The Influence of Electroencephalographic Density Spectral Array Guidance of Sevoflurane Administration on Recovery From General Anesthesia in Children. A Randomized Controlled Trial
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed July 2025 by Dr Sharon Eow
Single centre, prospective randomised controlled trial conducted at Sophia Children’s Hospital, a tertiary paediatric hospital in Rotterdam, Netherlands, between September 2022 and March 2024 ...
Electroencephalography and Anesthetic Depth in Children Under 2 Years of Age
A Prospective Observational Study
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed July 2025 by Dr Grace Andrews
This single-centre prospective observational study aimed to compare EEG spectral parameters during periods of false positive elevations in processed EEG indices to elevations in these indices during...
The effect of intraoperative cerebral oxygen desaturations on postoperative cerebral oxygen metabolism in neonates and infants a pilot study
Pediatric Anesthesia
Reviewed June 2024 by Dr Laura Panizza
Summary: This study by Jock et al assessed the effect of intraoperative cerebral oxygen desaturation on postoperative cerebral oxygen metabolism in neonates and infants undergoing non-cardiac surgery...
Effect of BIS-guided anesthesia on emergence delirium following general anesthesia in children
A prospective randomized controlled trial
Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine
Reviewed February 2024 by Dr Priya Sreedharan
This prospective, randomised, double-blinded study was conducted at the University hospital of Ostrava in the Czech Republic. The study hypothesized that optimizing the depth of general anaesthesia...
