Talk:Bispectral index

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This article is basically free advertising. There are a number of studies that show the limits to this device. BIS is _not_ an accepted method for determining the depth of anaesthesia.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bezzera (talk • contribs)

Give sources, websites, studies, newspaper articles (nothing unverified though). If you want to add criticism adding sources will greatly improve your arguement than you just saying it's wrong. Dmanning 20:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

There are no official recommendations. I just read the Spanish paper. They do _not_ specifically recommend BIS monitoring. If you really wanted to look Medline is full of papers showing inaccurate BIS readings including "therapeutic" numbers from brain-dead patients! Just look and see, there are many. Bezzera —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bezzera (talk • contribs) 14:29, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

There are also a number (hundreds) of excellent studies showing the value of many forms of EEG based depth of anesthesia (level of consciousness) monitoring including BIS and other methods. A good, and apparently objective, summary of what is recently available was recently published in Br J Anaesth. Depth of anaesthesia monitoring: what's available, what's validated and what's next? 2006 Jul;97(1):85-94. Epub 2006 Jun 2, by Bruhn J, Myles PS, Sneyd R, Struys MM. Anything new is not "accepted" (accepted as used here seems to mean the formal approval of a "practice advisory") by the medical community until many, many scientific and political challenges have been overcome. The substantial and rapid growth and acceptance of this technology in operating rooms seems to attest that it is providing benefits. --Bitsbear 20:58, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Patented but not Public?

From the Article "the calculation algorithm that the BIS monitor uses is patented, and the company refuses to make the algorithm public"

Either it is patented and therefore public, or it is not public and therefore not patented. It can not be both as every patent is public. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.105.6.110 (talk) 17:03, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Don't leave editing notes in the article. That's why there's a talk page to begin with.

75.144.110.148 (talk) 20:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)