Cerebral Oximetry in General Anaesthesia | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Anaesthesia is about trust

Human brain is the most wonderful thing in the world. Our brain makes us who we are; it makes humans unique, ensuring our personality, consciousness and abstract thinking. Patients undergoing general anaesthesia entrust this miracle to us anaesthesiologists. We have to serve this trust and give back this unique structure without any damage or malfunction as much as possible.

During general anaesthesia, anaesthesiologists have several tools for monitoring the status of brain. One of these options is cerebral oximetry, which estimates regional tissue oxygenation by transcutaneous measurement of the frontal cortex (1). Although pulse oximetry has been a standard monitor for decades and cerebral oximetry has evolved for over three decades and has been commercially available for over two decades, cerebral oximetry is not a routine monitor during g...