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Editorial
. 2018 Apr 13;18(1):39.
doi: 10.1186/s12871-018-0504-x.

Advances in anesthesia technology are improving patient care, but many challenges remain

D John Doyle  1   2 , Ashraf A Dahaba  3 , Yannick LeManach  4   5
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Editorial

Advances in anesthesia technology are improving patient care, but many challenges remain

D John Doyle et al. BMC Anesthesiol. .

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Abstract

Although significant advances in clinical monitoring technology and clinical practice development have taken place in the last several decades, in this editorial we argue that much more still needs to be done. We begin by identifying many of the improvements in perioperative technology that have become available in recent years; these include electroencephalographic depth of anesthesia monitoring, bedside ultrasonography, advanced neuromuscular transmission monitoring systems, and other developments. We then discuss some of the perioperative technical challenges that remain to be satisfactorily addressed, such as products that incorporate poor software design or offer a confusing user interface. Finally we suggest that the journal support initiatives to help remedy this problem by publishing reports on the evaluation of medical equipment as a means to restore the link between clinical research and clinical end-users.

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All authors are associate editors of BMC Anesthesiology. The authors declare that they have no other academic or financial conflicts of interest with respect to this manuscript.

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Ultrasound machines for applications such as echocardiography, regional anesthesia or central line placement have now evolved to the point that they can connected to a smartphone or tablet.Image from Michard F. Smartphones and e-tablets in perioperative medicine. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2017 Oct;70(5):493–499. doi: 10.4097/kjae.2017.70.5.493. PubMed PMID: 29046768; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5645581. Image used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
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