This review summarizes various tools for monitoring autonomic nervous system activity in perioperative, intensive care, and emergency settings.
Provides a hypothesis-generating overview of ANS tools; prospective validation required before clinical adoption in acute settings.
Autonomic nervous system’s role as a “life-sustaining” system is well known. However, the anatomically and functionally complexity of ANS, makes difficult its monitoring in perioperative setting. Various methods have been proposed for measuring its activity. The current review focuses on selected tools- electrodermal activity, pupilometry, heart rate variability, surgical skin index and salivatory-a amylase- and their application in the field of anesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine.
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