Models and time series analysis for anaesthesia : Estimation of the depth of anaesthesia from interacting physiological oscillators

ISBN-13: 9783639154405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str.

Kumiko Oshima

Opis

Nowadays, physiological monitoring is imperative for the safety of medical operations. However, systems which monitor the depth of anaesthesia are still far from reliable, such that still some patients may experience the trauma of remaining conscious under general anaesthesia during surgery. To tackle this problem, an interdisciplinary project "Brain Respiration and Cardiac Causalities in Anaesthesia (BRACCIA)" was created. The main objective of this project was to establish how the couplings between the cardiac, respiratory and cortical oscillations change in anaesthesia. Under the framework of this project, our objectives were: 1) The detection of the deep-light change of anaesthesia from experimental recordings on rats, and furthermore, the investigation of the interdependencies among three physiological activities, namely, the cardiac activity (H), respiration (R) and cortical activities (B) from experimental recordings of rats and humans, for each state of the depth of anaesthesia. 2) The modelling of the slow brain waves, and to consider the effect of anaesthesia on this model. This monograph explains in detail our methods and obtained results.

O autorze

She was born in Miyazaki (Japan) in 1978. She received the B.
Sc. and the M. Sc. degrees in electrical and electronic
engineering from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. And then, she
obtained the Ph. D. degree in computer and communication
sciences from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Lausanne, Switzerland in 2008.