Medical Device Regulatory Concerns

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Technology of Neuroscience


Neuroscience has been developed very rapidly during the last few years. The increase of studies of Neuroscience allows to obtaining valuable information of the activity of the brain. These studies lead to design new equipment or features in existing ones to monitor the activity of the brain. For example, latest anesthesia machines have been upgraded with two new features called EEG (electroencephalography) and BIS (Bispectral index) to monitor the activity of the brain during the use of anesthesia on the operation. These features allow also to measuring the spontaneous electrical activity of the cortex of the brain during external stimulation by the sensor of the machine to acquire data to help for evaluating the condition of the patient. In Kuwait, many hospitals have been using the technology of neuroscience as equipment including the anesthesia machines have been upgraded with the neuroscience technology features