Issue 7 - August 2009
We are pleased to provide you with the latest issue of the StO2 Sensor, a newsletter forum for tissue oxygenation monitoring in trauma, critical care, and emergency medicine. Here is a quick preview of what you will find in this month's edition:


According to Professor Dr. Thomas Scheeren, health care has been missing the ” black box” of perfusion monitoring until the InSpectra™ StO2 Monitor came along.

Emergency medicine at Rostock Hospital, in Germany, and throughout much of Europe, is a mobile profession for physicians.

In an effort to help more clinicians gain an understanding of the value of InSpectra™ StO2 System Measurement (StO2), Hutchinson Technology is delivering a range of live, online and printed educational programs to nurses and physicians.

Increasingly, clinicians are looking to collect patient information and understand it in conjunction with other parameters, to help guide interventions.

Healthcare providers are under considerable pressure to improve the effectiveness
of services while reducing the costs of providing care to an increasingly diverse
patient population.1,2










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.