Fractal dimension of Electroencephalogram for assessment of hypnosis state of patient during anaesthesia. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kumar, Sanjeev; Kumar, Amod; Gombar, Satinder; Trikha, Anjan; Anand, Sneh
• Is Part Of: International journal of biomedical engineering and technology. Volume 10:Number 1(2012)
• Page Start: 30
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: electroencephalogram -- balanced anaesthesia -- hypnosis -- higuchi fractal dimension -- BIS monitoring; Biomedical engineering -- Periodicals; 610.28
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1752-6418

Abstract

Depth of Anaesthesia (DoA) measurement and control is a demanding task that must be done to avoid intraoperative awareness and explicit recall of pain during surgery. Conventional methods of assessing DoA involve monitoring of physiological parameters, which are not found reliable, as patient awareness during surgery with anaesthetic agents has been reported. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is found to be a reliable means to determine the real anaesthetic state of a patient during surgery. Balanced anaesthesia is the fusion of four different components: hypnosis, analgesia, amnesia and neuromuscular blockade. The accurate control of anaesthesia is possible only with the accurate assessment of the different components of anaesthesia. The major component of balanced anaesthesia is hypnosis, which gives the level of unconsciousness of the patient during surgery. In the present study, efforts were made to calculate and validate an EEG-based parameter which is able to predict the awake and anaesthetic sleep state of the patient. In the present study, the EEG of 60 patients were recorded during normal awake state and while under anaesthesia. Analysis of the EEG signals was performed by non-linear quantifiers. Higuchi's Fractal Dimension (HFD) has been calculated for this recorded EEG waveform for all patients in both states. It was found that HFD is able to predict the awake/sleep state of the patient quite accurately. Validation of the study was done by monitoring BIS in parallel and concluded that the HFD of the EEG goes down as the patient moves into deep hypnosis state.