Umesh Goneppanavar, Jasvinder Kaur, Shetty Nanda
Department of Anaesthesiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
J Clin Monit Comput. 2009 Jun;23(3):185-6. doi: 10.1007/s10877-009-9169-9. Epub 2009 Mar 1.
Awareness during general anaesthesia is a rare but significant problem that can be frightening to the patients. We suggest that newer generation monitors should include this facility to provide a low alarm limit to MAC settings so as to improve the quality of patient care. Also we suggest that a "near empty" alarm be incorporated into vaporizers which can warn the anaesthesiologist prior to development of possible light plane of anaesthesia. We hope that adopting these two features can help enhance patient safety and can further aid in quality assurance.
全身麻醉期间的知晓是一个罕见但重要的问题，可能会让患者感到恐惧。我们建议新一代监测仪应具备此功能，为最低肺泡有效浓度（MAC）设置提供低报警限值，以提高患者护理质量。此外，我们建议在蒸发器中加入“接近空瓶”报警装置，以便在可能出现浅麻醉平面之前向麻醉医生发出警告。我们希望采用这两个功能有助于提高患者安全性，并进一步有助于质量保证。
