Journal of clinical monitoring and computing
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J Clin Monit Comput · Oct 2020
Observational StudyEvaluation of Surgical Pleth Index and Analgesia Nociception Index as surrogate pain measures in conscious postoperative patients: an observational study.
We evaluated the performance of the Surgical Plethysmographic Index (SPI) and the Analgesia Nociception Index (ANI) as surrogate pain measures and determined their respective cut-off values for detecting pain in conscious postoperative patients. In total, 192 patients after elective surgery were enrolled. Baseline SPI and ANI data were acquired for 10 min in the operating room prior to surgery when the patients rated their pain as 0 on the numerical rating scale (NRS). ⋯ The areas under the receiver operating curves for SPI and ANI were 0.73 (P < 0.0001) and 0.67 (P < 0.0001), respectively. The cut-off values for SPI and ANI in predicting postoperative pain were 44 (sensitivity: 84%, specificity: 53%) and 63 (sensitivity: 52%, specificity: 82%), respectively, which are different from those suggested by their respective manufacturers for use in intraoperative state under general anaesthesia. The cut-off values of SPI and ANI for detecting pain were similar regardless of the type of anesthesia.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Oct 2020
Clinical TrialIntraoperative core temperature monitoring: accuracy and precision of zero-heat flux heated controlled servo sensor compared with esophageal temperature during major surgery; the ESOSPOT study.
Monitoring of intraoperative core temperature is strongly recommended to reduce the risk of perioperative thermic imbalance and related complications. The zero-heat-flux sensor (3M Bair Hugger Temperature monitoring system, ZHF), measures core temperature in a non-invasive manner. This study was aimed at comparing accuracy and precision of the ZHF sensor compared to the esophageal thermometer. ⋯ According to GEE multiple regression model results, the explored patient- and surgery-related variables did not influence the association between methods. ZHF sensor has shown a clinically acceptable accuracy and precision for body core temperature monitoring during elective major surgery. CLINICAL TRIALS: Clinical trial number: NCT03820232.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Oct 2020
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyMulticenter comparison of three intraoperative hemoglobin trend monitoring methods.
Transfusion decisions are guided by clinical factors and measured hemoglobin (Hb). Time required for blood sampling and analysis may cause Hb measurement to lag clinical conditions, thus continuous intraoperative Hb trend monitoring may provide useful information. This multicenter study was designed to compare three methods of determining intraoperative Hb changes (trend accuracy) to laboratory determined Hb changes. ⋯ Changes more than ± 0.5 g/dl agreed with tHb changes more than ± 0.25 g/dl in 94.2% (88.9-97.0%) SpHb changes, 98.9% (96.1-99.7%) ABGHb changes and 99.0% (96.4-99.7%) aHQHb changes. Sequential changes in SpHb, ABGHb and aHQHb exceeding ± 0.5 g/dl have similar agreement to the direction but not necessarily the magnitude of sequential tHb change. While Hb blood tests should continue to be used to inform transfusion decisions, intraoperative continuous noninvasive SpHb decreases more than - 0.5 g/dl could be a good indicator of the need to measure tHb.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Oct 2020
Editorial CommentNon-invasive monitoring is coming the full circle, making our patients safer!
Non-invasive monitoring is becoming more accurate, more available and mobile. The clinical advantage that this developing technology provides is that the data may be monitored continuously; relatively unobtrusively, and transmitted directly to the caregiver. The downside of being non-invasive has been the potential loss of accuracy in the data displayed. ⋯ The study by Applegate et al. [1] confirms the trend accuracy of SpHb as an indication to perform a laboratory confirmation of hemoglobin level. This will lead to earlier laboratory screening, so that developing adverse conditions, such as postoperative bleeding, may be identified at a time that major events, such as failure to rescue can be avoided. This increased availability of non-invasive technology will make patients safer both in our hospitals and at home.
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J Clin Monit Comput · Oct 2020
Observational StudyTranspulmonary thermodilution before and during veno-venous extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation ECMO: an observational study on a potential loss of indicator into the extra-corporeal circuit.
Haemodynamic monitoring before extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) might help to optimize the effectiveness of ECMO. However, there are concerns that pulmonary arterial and trans-pulmonary thermodilution (TPTD) might be confounded by a loss of indicator into the ECMO-circuit, resulting in an overestimation of volumetric parameters. Since there is a lack of data on indicator dilution techniques during ECMO, we compared TPTD-measurements before and during ECMO. ⋯ Our study demonstrates marked increases in GEDVI and EVLWI after the onset of ECMO. These increases were more pronounced for femoral compared to jugular indicator injection. CI and haemodynamic parameters not derived from TPTD were not affected by the extra-corporeal circuit.