State of the Art Patient Monitoring

The anesthesia service of the Irvine Plastic Surgery Center uses a BIS® (Bispectral Index) Monitor. In addition to the multiple devices already in place to monitor our patients, this new state of the art device allows our anesthesiologist to follow patient levels of sedation with even further precision.

The common patient concern about "waking up" during surgery goes from exceedingly rare to remote. Additionally, the anesthesiologist can avoid keeping the patient deeper than necessary during surgery. Fine tuning the level of patient sedation may mean giving less drugs for the patient, faster wake up in the recovery room, and less risk of PONV (post operative nausea and vomiting). We are very excited to be one of the first single practice outpatient ambulatory plastic surgery facilities to have this technology available.