Sedation of severe COVID-19 disease are often complicated. We try to find a correlate for this observation by encephalographic studies.

Sedation of critically ill ventilated coronavirus patients, continues to be a challenging issue. Also, neurological symptoms of severe COVID-19 disease have been described frequently. Difficulties in sedation of these patients have been discussed repeatedly. The aim of this study is to investigate whether an encephalographic correlate can be found. Appropriate processed encephalographic techniques have been used for anesthesia monitoring for many years.

The aim of our study is to collect unrelated processed and raw EEG data of sedated COVID-19 patients and to investigate the correlation to the necessary sedation.

Inclusion Criteria:

Intubated ventilated patients with SARS-CoV-2 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome and sedation difficulty.

Exclusion Criteria:

Pre-existing severe cerebral brain damage and dysfunction. For example: previous medial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, structural epilepsy.

Critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring advanced intensive care treatment with existing intubation-requiring acute respiratory distress syndrome under invasive ventilation. Adequate depth of sedation is usually required for appropriate therapy, which is frequently challenging in COVID-19 patients.

The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to national data protection laws. Upon justified request, the data will be accessible at the primary investigator.