Is Cerebral Oximetry Monitoring a Standard-of-Care During Cardiac Surgery?

Abstract

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Interventions Triggered During Routine Use of NIRS Cerebral Oxygenation Monitoring in Cardiac Surgical Patients

“…Previous studies reported benefits of NIRS monitoring outside the indications suggested by the guidelines 3,8 . This may suggest the routine use of NIRS for all cardiac surgical procedures 10 . Despite proposed algorithm-based approaches to re-establish NIRS baseline values 8,11 the incidence and types of specific interventions have been poorly reported in the literature.…”