What the ASA desperately doesn’t want you to know:
FDA approved for 15 years, the BIS brain monitor directly measures anesthesia effect on your brain.
BIS found in 75% of US hospitals but only used 25%. $20 sensor needed.
No anesthesiologist gives you a blood pressure (BP) drug & fails to measure your BP.
Why, then, in the 21st century, does the ASA continue to resist the notion of measuring your brain?
http://www.pr.com/press-release/57265
Michael Jackson was only the most famous American to die from anesthesia over-medication.
No brain monitor = 1 patient death every day.
BIS monitoring has recently been declared cost effective & should be used for every anesthetic.
The ASA is the same group that took 6 years to declare pulse oximetry a standard of care.
Patients must demand their brains be directly monitored when having surgery under anesthesia or go elsewhere. Same change model as fathers in the delivery room.
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