Journal of Critical Care
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 322-328 , September 2009

Assessing the predictive value of the bispectral index vs patient state index on clinical assessment of sedation in postoperative cardiac surgery patients

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 This work was performed at the Veterans Administration North Texas Health Care System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

☆☆ This work was supported in part by an unrestricted grant from Hospira Inc and the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX.

 No sponsors had any role in the study design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

PII: S0883-9441(08)00248-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2008.11.004

Journal of Critical Care
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 322-328 , September 2009