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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Sevoflurane Requirements Lowered With EEG-Guided Anesthesia

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Choon Looi Bong, MD

A randomized controlled trial (J Clin Anesth 2022;81:110913) concluded that intraoperative electroencephalographic-guided anesthesia care (EEG-G) leads to a modest reduction in sevoflurane requirements in children undergoing general anesthesia for routine surgery, compared with standard anesthesia care.

“When pediatric EEG monitoring systems incorporating the spectrogram became widely available for use in clinical anesthesia, our anesthesia department embraced this