Tackling the Waves of COVID-19: A Planning Model for Intrahospital Resource Allocation.

The current pandemic requires hospitals to ensure care not only for the growing number of COVID-19 patients but also regular patients. Hospital resources must be allocated accordingly. To provide hospitals with a planning model to optimally allocate resources to intensive care units given a certain incidence of COVID-19 cases.

Impact of propofol on mid-latency auditory-evoked potentials in children.

Background: Propofol is increasingly used in paediatric anaesthesia, but can be challenging to titrate accurately in this group. Mid-latency auditory-evoked potentials (MLAEPs) can be used to help titrate propofol. However, the effects of propofol on MLAEP in children are unclear.

Effects of increasing sevoflurane MAC levels on mid-latency auditory evoked potentials in infants, schoolchildren, and the elderly.

Background: Detection of mid-latency auditory evoked potentials (MLAEPs) is a technology to monitor central nervous structures. As seen in adults and children, general anaesthesia influences the MLAEP latencies. MLAEP detection seems to be a promising tool to assess different levels of anaesthesia depth in adults and children.

General anesthesia increases temporal precision and decreases power of the brainstem auditory-evoked response-related segments of the electroencephalogram.

Background: Brainstem auditory-evoked responses (BAEP) have been reported to be unchanged in the presence of drugs used for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia. The aim of this study was to investigate if the signal segments after the auditory stimulus that are used to average the evoked response change under the influence of general anesthesia.

Methods: BAEPs of 156 patients scheduled for elective surgery under general anesthesia were investigated.