Advancing anaesthesia monitoring: Real-world cases using the Surgical Pleth Index™ (SPI) to monitor nociceptive - antinociceptive balance

Excessive intraoperative stress evoked by surgical nociceptive stimulation may influence patients’ outcome, length of hospital stays, and overall costs of hospital care. To achieve adequate analgesia (antinociception) blunting the intraoperative stress response, most notably haemodynamic instability, it is crucial to use an adequate variable for balancing the nociceptionantinociception level during general anaesthesia. Traditionally, clinical signs like somatic (movement) or autonomic (tachycardia, hypertension, sweating, and tearing) responses are used to evaluate whether analgesia is adequate, which has been proved to be unreliable demonstrating low specificity.

In this webinar, Prof. Gruenewald will review real-life cases recorded at the Evangelisches Amalie Sieveking Krankenhaus hospital in Hamburg, Germany, providing a deep dive into the application of the Surgical Pleth Index™ (SPI) in clinical practice.

Attendees will also gain understanding of the limitations of traditional monitoring and discover the benefits of new parameters introduction to advance anaesthesia monitoring.