Near-infrared spectroscopy provides noninvasive continuous access to the venous circulation to facilitate the detection of circulatory abnormalities and drive interventions to reduce ischemic injury.
Does near-infrared spectroscopy improve the detection of circulatory abnormalities and reduce end-organ ischemic injury in children undergoing anesthesia?
Near-infrared spectroscopy provides noninvasive continuous monitoring of regional venous circulation, potentially facilitating the detection of circulatory abnormalities and reducing ischemic injury during anesthesia.
The safety of anesthesia has improved greatly in the past three decades. Standard perioperative monitoring, including pulse oximetry, has practically eliminated unrecognized arterial hypoxia as a cause for perioperative injury. However, most anesthesia-related cardiac arrests in children are now cardiovascular in origin, and standard monitoring is unable to detect many circulatory abnormalities. Near-infrared spectroscopy provides noninvasive continuous access to the venous side of regional circulations that can approximate organ-specific and global measures to facilitate the detection of circulatory abnormalities and drive goal-directed interventions to reduce end-organ ischemic injury.
Scott et al. (Sat,) conducted a review in Perioperative monitoring and anesthesia-related cardiac arrests. Near-infrared spectroscopy was evaluated. Near-infrared spectroscopy provides noninvasive continuous access to the venous circulation to facilitate the detection of circulatory abnormalities and drive interventions to reduce ischemic injury.