Excessive intraoperative stress evoked by surgical nociceptive stimulation may influence patients’ outcome, length of hospital stays, and overall costs of hospital care. To achieve adequate analgesia (antinociception) blunting the intraoperative stress response, most notably haemodynamic instability, it is crucial to use an adequate variable for balancing the nociceptionantinociception level during general anaesthesia. Traditionally, clinical signs like somatic (movement) or autonomic (tachycardia, hypertension, sweating, and tearing) responses are used to evaluate whether analgesia is adequate, which has been proved to be unreliable demonstrating low specificity.
Surgical Pleth Index (SPI) aims to quantify the intraoperative stress level during general anaesthesia. Several studies have shown SPI’s potential for detection of nociceptive stimuli and suggest that SPI could be used for guiding specific opioids administration, which may result in lower drugs consumption, more stable haemodynamics, and fewer unwanted events.
In this webinar, the participants will receive an overview of the major clinical outcomes that may be possible by using SPI and will learn how to best leverage this measurement during clinical practice.
In addition, we will cover the advantages of combining both analgesia and depth of anaesthesia monitoring in order to help you achieve greater haemodynamic stability and faster patient recovery.