What is brain oxymmetry?
Cerebral oxymmetry is measuring oxygen saturation in the brain. This organ requires a large part of oxygen to function and is very sensitive to the deprivation period. Monitoring of oxygen levels can provide important information about the patient's neurological health and can allow care providers to quickly solve decreasing oxygen saturation in the brain. This can improve the patient's results and reduce the risk of brain damage, stroke and other neurological trauma. This may be special worries with cardiac surgery, as well as procedures with a high level of blood loss and operations involving children. The anesthesiologist can use brain oxymmetry along with a different technology to monitor the patient during the procedure. If signs of complications or problems appear, the anesthesiologist may respond and alert the care team.
Equipmment used for measuring brain oxymmetry relies on changes in light absorption as the brain passes to determine the level of the present oxygen. This can provide information about local saturation with oxygen andIt can be combined with values from elsewhere in the body to determine the distribution of oxygen in the patient. Anesthesiologists can program a display that provides deductions of blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation and other key values that are during the procedure. The monitoring software also generates a protocol available for operation control.
This testing is not invasive and should not include pain or disruption of the patient. The anesthesiologist or other care provider places sensors on the skull, tests them to make sure they work and connects them to the device. These, together with other patient monitoring sensors, a surgical team is preparing to induce anesthesia. Patients who are curious about the equipment used can apply for more information.
In addition to being used in surgery, brain oximetry may have some other applications. Sleep studyOU include the use of oxymmetry to evaluate the oxygen level in the brain and elsewhere in the body to determine whether patients experience oxygen deprivation during sleep. This test can also be required for other reasons if the doctor believes that this is necessary. When patients are awake during the test, it is important to avoid the shocks of cerebral oximeter wires, as this could reduce sensors or disrupt values and require a test repeat.