AORN dei Colli, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Monaldi Hospital, Via Leonardo Bianchi, 80131 Naples, Italy

Continuous Noninvasive Haemoglobin Monitoring in Vascular Surgery within the Goal-Directed Therapy Protocol

Published in Central European Annals of Clinical Research

The optimisation of DO2, within the Goal-Direct Therapy Protocol (GDTP) in high-risk surgical patients, improves their outcome. Haemodynamic and haemoglobin monitoring become crucial to achieve optimal DO2. Our study compared Hb as measured by three methods: Coulter Counter (standard laboratory method) and CO-Oximetry (Masimo rainbow SET Radical 7 ...