How is BIS monitoring used during anesthesia?
The BIS monitor can used by your anesthesia professional to help adjust the amount of medications that you are receiving during the operation. By having information from your brain that tells your anesthesia professional how you are responding to the medications, they can change the amount of medication to be certain you are not getting too much or too little anesthesia. Helping your anesthesia clinician find the right amount is very important – patients getting too much anesthesia medication are more likely to have the anesthesia side-effects described above. If you get too little medicine, you are at greater risk of being awake during anesthesia.
