Cerebral and somatic oximetry - the wave of the future.
For more than a decade, the INVOS® System has been safely and reliably used to protect patients' brain and body oxygenation. In just last year alone, the INVOS® System was used in 185,000 procedures and at 700+ U.S. hospitals.
With more than 600 clinical references that report on patient benefits, and new studies forthcoming each week, it's clear that cerebral and somatic oximetry is a growing trend in healthcare.
The INVOS® System can be used on adult, pediatric, infant and neonatal patients in any clinical setting where the brain and body are at risk of reduced-flow or no-flow ischemic states. It is a real-time guide to monitor brewing complications and evaluate therapeutic intervention. When you consider that neurological injury and tissue damage are largely irreversible, monitoring a patient's oxygen saturation to prevent these in real time makes clinical sense.
The breadth and depth of this unique, noninvasive patient monitor continues to expand as clinicians from a variety of medical fields are discovering that the INVOS® System can help to improve patient outcomes by helping circumvent complications associated with ischemic conditions.
In fact, we're seeing more and more use of cerebral/somatic oximetry in the following areas...
- Traumatic Brain Injury/TBI
Cerebral oximetry is helping to treat soldiers with TBI, the signature wound of the Iraqi/ Afghanistan wars. Emergency rooms are also using cerebral oximetry via the INVOS® System to treat an assortment of head injuries due to other causes.
- Life Flight/Ambulance Transport
Emergency personnel have only seconds to make decisions. The immediate feedback from the INVOS® System enhances patient risk assessment, resuscitation and other critical care therapies. Concrete data to support these split-second decisions helps emergency care teams provide a higher level of medical care and treatment.
- Neuro ICU
Post operative care in neuro surgeries is highly critical. The INVOS® System provides continuous visibility to cerebral oxygen saturation levels, allowing you to detect ischemic threats and maintain your patient's brain health, steering them away from any further or new brain injury.
- Aortic Aneurysm Repairs
By using the INVOS® System in thoraco-abdominal aortic (TAA) surgeries, clinicians are receiving specific, real-time information about peri-spinal oxygen levels which can guide their intraoperative management strategies, helping identify potential ischemic events during thoracic aortic surgery.
- Sleep Apnea
As common as adult diabetes, sleep apnea affects more than twelve million Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. If untreated, sleep apnea can increase the chances of stroke. The INVOS® System, used as an integral part of the sleep lab process, provides real-time rSO2 trends in the brain, helping clinicians detect and correct oxygenation deficits that are serious enough to produce cerebral hypoxemia.
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