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Oxygenation of Peripheral Tissues in Young and Elderly Patients During Spinal Anesthesia
  1. Stanley Muravchick, MD, PhD* and
  2. Richard Johnson, MD†
  1. From the Department of Anesthesia at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  2. * Associate Professor of Anesthesia at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
  3. † Fellow in Anesthesia at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Abstract

Forty-three surgical patients underwent continuous transcutaneous oxygen monitoring during spinal anesthesia for elective surgery to determine whether supplementation of inspired oxygen improved peripheral tissue oxygenation under these circumstances. Unchanged by spinal anesthesia itself, peripheral oxygen tensions rose significantly (p < 0.01) during conventional nasal prong oxygen therapy in both young and elderly patients. Routine application of conservative oxygen therapy appears to improve delivery of oxygen to peripheral tissues consistently during spinal anesthesia.

  • Anesthesia
  • geriatric
  • Anesthetic techniques
  • spinal
  • Measurement techniques
  • transcutaneous
  • Monitoring
  • continuous
  • Oxygen
  • arterial and tissue
  • transport
  • Therapy
  • oxygen

https://doi.org/10.1136/rapm-00115550-198611010-00003

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