Intraoperative monitoring during vascular surgery.
The principal objectives of intraoperative monitoring are to improve perioperative outcome, facilitate surgery and reduce adverse events, using continuously collected data of cardiopulmonary,neurologic and metabolic function to guide pharmacologic and physiologic therapy. Although sophisticated and reliable apparatus may be used to collect these data they are useless, or even harmful, without proper interpretation. This article provides a comprehensive overview of recent publications on the history,philosophy, and semantics of monitoring.
Papworth
David
D
Department of Anesthesia, The Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. david-papworth@uiowa.edu
D000818:Animals; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures