InSpectra St0

Education

OCTOBER 2010

Advanced StO₂ Education Program (ASTEP) - Minneapolis, Minnesota

Radisson University Hotel

A one-day seminar in clinical applications for trauma, ED, OR, ICU, and EMS.

October 15, 2010 - Nurse and RT Program
October 16, 2010 - Physician Program

Join other clinicians and international faculty in a comprehensive and interactive program to learn how noninvasive monitoring of tissue oxygenation (StO₂) is used in the ED, trauma, ICUs, and OR to detect hypoperfusion early regardless of cause.

For more information, contact Vickie Makela:
320.223.2304 or vmakela@hti.htch.com

Recent Studies

Critical Care, the on-line journal whose editor-in-chief is Jean Louis Vincent, has published a supplement titled: "Tissue Oxygenation (StO₂) in Healthy Volunteers and Critically-ill Patients". The supplement, edited by Jan Bakker and Can Ince, includes: an editorial by Didier Payen and Michael Pinsky; eleven (11) papers with new research results; and one review article. Included are papers which examined tissue oxygenation during blood transfusion and when treating sepsis patients with aPc. Publication was supported with funding from Hutchinson Technology Inc.

Click here to enable free on-line access to this supplement.

The InSpectra™ StO₂ Tissue Oxygenation Monitor provides a noninvasive, continuous, real-time, and direct measurement of hemoglobin oxygen saturation in tissue (StO₂), providing trauma teams the ability to measure tissue oxygen saturation and monitor it during resuscitation. It is the only perfusion status monitor designed for trauma environments. The InSpectra StO₂ Tissue Oxygenation Monitor uses near infrared light to illuminate tissue, and then analyzes the returned light to produce a quantitative measurement of oxygen saturation in the tissue's microcirculation.

The StO₂ Trauma Study researched the role that tissue oxygen saturation monitoring could play in hemorrhagic shock and resuscitation. Study results demonstrate that StO₂ measurements less than 75% may indicate serious hypoperfusion in trauma patients and that StO₂ functions as well as base deficit in indicating hypoperfusion in trauma patients.