Hutchinson Technology's BioMeasurement Division Trauma Advisory Board

Trauma Advisory Board

Gregory J. Beilman, MD
Professor of Surgery and Anesthesia
Chief, Surgical Critical Care/Trauma
Department of Surgery
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Larry M. Gentilello, MD
Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas

Frederick A. Moore, MD
Professor of Surgery
Head, Division of Surgical Critical Care & Acute Care Surgery

Weill Cornell Medical College
The Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas

Lena M. Napolitano, MD
Professor of Surgery

Associate Chair of Surgery

Division Chief, Acute Care Surgery
Department of Surgery

Director, Surgical Critical Care
University of Michigan Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Avery B. Nathens, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

Division Head General Surgery & Director of Trauma

University of Toronto

St. Michael's Hospital

Toronto, Ontario

Ronald G. Pearl, MD, PhD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesia
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

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.