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Discrimination of Anesthetic States using Mid-Latency Auditory Evoked Potential and Artificial Neural Networks

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This study was undertaken to determine whether artificial neural network (ANN) processing of mid-latency auditory evoked potentials (MLAEPs) can identify different anesthetic states during propofol anesthesia, and to determine those parameters that are most useful in the identification process. Twenty-one patients undergoing elective abdominal surgery were studied. To maintain general anesthesia, the patients received propofol (3–5 mg kg−1 h−1 intravenously). Epidural analgesia at the level of T4-5 blocked painful stimuli. MLAEP was recorded continuously with patients awake, during induction, during maintenance of general anesthesia, and during emergence until the patients were recovered from anesthesia. Latencies of the 5 MLAEP peaks and three peak to peak amplitudes were measured, along with hemodynamic parameters (heart rate, systolic, and diastolic arterial blood pressure). Four-layer ANNs were used to model the relationship between the parameters of the MLAEP and the four different states (awake, adequate anesthesia, during/before intraoperative movement, and emergence from anesthesia). The best identification accuracy was obtained using only the five latencies. The combination of five latencies and three amplitudes did not improve the identification accuracy. Use of the only the three hemodynamic parameters produced a much poorer identification. This study suggests that the MLAEP has useful information for identifying different anesthetic states, especially in its latencies. A nonlinear discrimination approach, such as the ANN, can effectively capture the relation between the MLAEP patterns and the different states of anesthesia. © 2001 Biomedical Engineering Society.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

    Xu-Sheng Zhang & Rob J. Roy

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY

    Rob J. Roy

  3. Institute for Anesthesiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Dierk Schwender & Michael Daunderer

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Zhang, XS., Roy, R.J., Schwender, D. et al. Discrimination of Anesthetic States using Mid-Latency Auditory Evoked Potential and Artificial Neural Networks. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 29, 446–453 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1114/1.1366673

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