Title: The Comparison of Minimum Alveolar Concentration and BIS50 of Inhalation Anesthetics for Evaluation of Anesthetic Potency
Abstract: Background: The bispectral index (BIS) has been designed to objectively measure the degree of sedation and hypnosis for anesthesia. Although it has been well-known that BIS correlates highly with the concentration of inhalation anesthetics, it is not clear whether analgesic potency expressed as MAC is comparable to hypnotic potency described as in inhaled anesthetics. This study was conducted to examine the degree of correspondence by correlating the changes of BIS according to the different MAC of commonly used inhalation anesthetics. Methods: One hundred ASA class 1 or 2 patients, scheduled for laparoscopic knee surgery were included. Patients were equally divided into 4 groups (n = 25 each) according to the inhalational agent enflurane, isoflurane, desflurane, or sevoflurane. Anesthetic depth for each individual agent was controlled to 2.0, 1.75, 1.5, 1.25, 1.0, 0.75 and 0.5 MAC, respectively. After equilibration for each concentration, BIS values were measured three times at 30 second intervals and an average was obtained. In addition, MAC values for each agent were measured when the bispectral index showed 50. Results: The concentrations of inhaled agents vs. BIS showed high negative correlations (enflurane;-0.91, isoflurane;-0.94, desflurane;-0.84, and sevoflurane;-0.86). for each agent was enflurane, 0.93 (1.6 vol%);isoflurane, 0.71 (0.9 vol%);desflurane, 0.95 (5.7 vol%);and sevoflurane, 0.84 MAC (1.7 vol%). Isoflurane- showed a significant difference to the others (P < 0.05). Conclusions: We concluded that the MAC of inhalation anesthetics showed poor correlation with BIS, suggesting a difference between the hypnotic and analgesic potency of individual inhaled anesthetic agents.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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