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How to Score Levels of Consciousness
There are a number of metrics that, as Fianna was mentioning, there have been, brain monitoring has been happening in operating theaters for very long time to try and keep track of the level of anesthesia. New kinds of consciousness or anesthesia meters go a little bit beyond just measuring how strong particular waves are like these delta oscillations in the brain. A new approach that's been pioneered for the last 20 years or so has been measuring levels of brain complexity. And this number seems to be able to track conscious level both in anesthesia, but also in sleep and after brain injury and many other conditions too. Al, do you think we should start anesthetizing carrots before we cut into them
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