"As a nurse, you want to do everything you can for a patient, and to do that you want to know everything you possibly can about them. A lot of our patients can't talk to us, but BIS allows us to listen to our patients in an entirely new way. BIS gives us important, objective information about our patients' needs, providing critical information that enhances clinical decision-making."
- DaiWai Olson, RN, PhD, CCRN, Duke University
"My overriding concern is to provide a humane environment for the ICU patient. That means striving for maximum comfort with minimal adverse effects...BIS is vital to that mission."
- Gilles Fraser, Maine Medical Center
"We calculated a savings of $185 per patient per day when the BIS monitor was used to monitor the brain for optimal sedation."
- DaiWai Olson, RN, PhD, CCRN, Duke University
"BIS places the final piece - objective assessment - into our sedation care best practice. This is all about having the ability to make good clinical judgments. We need both subjective observation and objective data to make these sound judgments."
- Michael Luebbehusen, RN, Clarian Health Partners
"BIS provides objective data to help us determine appropriate sedation to meet each patient's needs. Before BIS, we may not have even known that the patient was not appropriately sedated."
- Charlie Forbes, RN, BSN, CCRN, Clarian Health Partners
"The BIS meets all of the goals for an ideal monitor: it is accurate and reproducible, practical and pertinent to patient care, non-invasive and low risk, and inexpensive."
- Richard Riker, MD, Maine Medical Center
"By using the BIS monitor as part of a protocol to reduce ICU costs, we were able to decrease our use of sedatives by 58%."
- John A. Lewis, Pharm. D., Spectrum Health
"By using BIS to guide our sedation, we were able to reduce our sedative costs by an average of $150 per patient."
- HeatherLee Bailey, MD, Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital
"Bispectral Index monitoring of ICU patients on continuous infusions of paralytics and sedatives reduces sedative drug cost as well as recall phenomenon."
- Lewis Kaplan, MD, Yale New Haven Hospital
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