Issue 5 - January 2008
In the January issue of the StO2 Sensor newsletter, you will find an overview of how the InSpectra StO2 Monitoring System is successful in providing noninvasive, continuous perfusion status to critical care clinicians. Here is a quick preview of other items of interest in this month's edition:


InSpectra™ StO2 Clinical Users Provide First-hand Insight at HTI’s 2007 Directors’ Forum
For the fifth consecutive year, Hutchinson Technology sponsored a forum for the discussion of tissue perfusion monitoring at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), held in Las Vegas, Nevada, September 2007.

Laying the Foundation: The Economics of Hemorrhagic Shock
The price paid for not recognizing hemorrhagic shock, not treating shock appropriately, or over-resuscitating trauma patients can be significant, both in terms of patient outcomes and associated costs.

Case Data Lives on in New Software
In order to help customers better understand InSpectra StO2 data in context with other measurements, Hutchinson Technology Inc. introduced the new InSpectra StO2 Case Graphing Software that allows users to easily export InSpectra StO2 data from the InSpectra StO2 Monitor and create graphs of patient InSpectra StO2 tracings.

Look for us at these US and International Meetings
Included in this edition of StO2 Sensor is a list of meetings we’ll be attending in the first quarter of 2008. If you’re in the neighborhood, we hope you will stop by and let us give you a hands-on demonstration of the InSpectra StO2 Tissue Oxygenation Monitor.



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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.