A Crossover Comparison of the Sensitivity and the Specificity between BIS and AEP in Predicting Unconsciousness in General Anesthesia

Table 5

BIS and AEP vs. propofol.

Propofol		Correlation coefficient, r
		BIS				AEPi
		Base	Sedation	Unconc	Anes	Base	Sedation	Unconc	Anes
Pred	Sedat	0.21	−0.06	−0.50	−0.02	−0.22	0.08	0.24	0.34
	Unconc	0.40	0.27	−0.34	−0.12	−0.17	0.19	0.29	0.56
	Anesthesia	0.44	0.30	−0.49	−0.35	−0.14	0.15	0.33	0.43
Eff	Sedat	0.22	0.09	−0.30	−0.31	−0.53	0.08	0.10	0.35
	Unconc	0.42	0.27	−0.26	−0.16	−0.23	0.09	0.22	0.56
	Anesthesia	0.43	0.33	−0.45	−0.35	−0.25	0.05	0.20	0.39

Significantly different from r = 0 at the 0.05 level. r = 1 or −1 means perfect correlation. r = 0 means no correlation.