Abbreviations
AAFT
Amplitude-adjusted Fourier transform (surrogate data)
ADP
Adenosine diphosphate
AEP
Auditory evoked potential
AI
Association-induction (hypothesis)
ALE
Asymptotic Lyapunov exponent
ARA
Attractor reconstruction analysis
ATP
Adenosine triphosphate (molecule that carries energy within cells)
AV
Atrioventricular (node)
AWR
Awareness with recall
BF
Blood flux
BIS
TM
Commercial anaesthetic monitor manufactured by Medtronic,
Minneapolis
BMBF
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
BMI
Body mass index
BOLD
Blood-oxygen-level-dependent
BP
Blood pressure
BRACCIA Brain, respiration and cardiac causalities in anæthesia (an FP6
project)
BSR
Burst suppression rate
cGMP
Cyclic guanosine monophosphate (a cyclic nucleotide)
CNS
Central nervous system
CPC
Cardiopulmonary coupling
CRPS
Cardiorespiratory phase synchronization
CSA
Central sleep apnea
CT
Computerised tomography
CT
Core temperature
CVD
Cardiovascular disease
CWT
Continuous wavelet transform
DBP
Diastolic blood pressure
DFA
Detrended fluctuation analysis
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