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Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Decreases drug use, shortens time to awakening after surgery, and reduces costs in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass. (Okayama University School of Medicine, Japan; University of Louisville, United States) According to Noah Sandler, D.M.D, M.D., an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota who is presenting his research findings at the ASA, the BIS monitor may be a useful measure of conscious sedation for oral surgery."More and more complex procedures are being performed in dental offices, and until now there has been no way to gauge with confidence an individual patient's response to sedatives in this environment," Dr. Sandler said.