Research Article

High Incidence of Burst Suppression during Propofol Sedation for Outpatient Colonoscopy: Lessons Learned from Neuromonitoring

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for demographic and dosing variables for the study group.

NRangeMeanStandard deviation95.0% CI of mean

Demographics
Male/female47/72
Age11825.0–65.052.19.250.4–53.7
ASA status1181-21.80.31.7–1.9
BMI11919.0–67.428.96.327.7–30.0
Height (m)1191.4–2.01.60.11.6-1.7
Weight (kg)11949.0–201.083.320.379.6–87.0

Dosing
Number of propofol boluses861.0–8.02.51.22.2–2.7
Total propofol dose (mg)11880.0–607.2242.9105.7223.6–262.1
Propofol dose per kg (mg)1190.7–9.33.11.52.8–3.4
Surgical duration (min)1197.0–46.417.56.716.3–18.7