Learning objectives

  • Understand the Surgical Pleth Index (SPI) parameter and its related clinical evidence
  • Learn the tips and tricks for its use during clinical practice
  • Hear compelling clinical cases on cardio, trauma surgery, and more
  • Learn about the clinical advantages achieved by combining SPI and depth of anaesthesia Entropy monitoring
  • Understand the value of the BalView visualization tool
  • Understand how to optimise patient throughout with SPI and Entropy monitoring


 
Course description

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 nociception-antinociception 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.

Surgical Pleth Index (SPI) aims to quantify the intraoperative stress level during general anaesthesia. Several studies have shown SPI’s potential for detection of nociceptive stimuli and suggest that SPI could be used for guiding specific opioids administration, which may result in lower drugs consumption, more stable haemodynamics, and fewer unwanted events.

In this webinar, the participants will receive an overview of the major clinical outcomes that may be possible by using SPI and will learn how to best leverage this measurement during clinical practice.

In addition, we will cover the advantages of combining both analgesia and depth of anaesthesia monitoring in order to help you achieve greater haemodynamic stability and faster patient recovery


Who Should Attend:
Anaesthetists and OR nurses

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Prof. Dr. Med. Matthias Lars Grünewald, MHBA
Chair of Department

Specialist in anaesthesiology, intensive care, and emergency medicine | Evangelic Amalie Sieveking Hospital

Specialist in anaesthesiology, intensive care, and emergency medicine | Evangelic Amalie Sieveking Hospital Prof. Matthias Grünewald has been the Chief Physician at the Clinic for Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Evangelical Amalie Sieveking Hospital since October 1, 2022. He studied medicine at Charité Berlin and completed his training as a specialist in anaesthesiology at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) in Kiel. Prof. Grünewald is specialised in hospital management and has been the Deputy Clinic Director at the UKSH in Kiel since 2017. In UKSH specifically, Prof. Grünewald performed a quite intense scientific work on patient individualized control of Register here medications and haemodynamic management. With more than 160 publications and clinical investigations of medical devices and parameters including the Surgical Pleth Index (SPI), Prof. Grünewald is a renowned physician who can bring theory into practice and support peers in advancing patient care.


The opinions, beliefs, and viewpoints expressed in this webinar are solely those of the presenter and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of GE HealthCare. The author is a paid consultant for GE HealthCare and was compensated for creation of this webinar. Surgical Pleth Index (SPI) parameter is not available in the U.S. and Japan. © 2024 GE HealthCare. SPI is a trademark of GE HealthCare. GE is a trademark of General Electric Company used under trademark license. JB28829XX


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