Abstract
We describe a 58-year-old male patient with confusion and prolonged recovery after liver transplantation. A cause was not apparent for the confusion, but during surgery, monitoring of the frontal lobe cerebral haemoglobin oxygen saturation by near-infrared spectrophotometry showed cerebral hypo-oxygenation despite optimization of conventional cardiovascular parameters. It is possible that intraoperative cerebral ischaemia is the cause of post-surgical confusion and with near-infrared spectrophotometry this hypothesis may be tested clinically.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Anaesthesia and intensive care |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 308-310 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| ISSN | 0310-057X |
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| Publication status | Published - 2000 |
Keywords
- Monitoring: spectroscopy, near-infrared
- Oxygen: brain, ischaemia