Near-infrared spectroscopy: potential clinical benefits in surgery.

摘要

Oxygen is essential to our survival. Nevertheless, as clinicians, we still struggle to assess the adequacy of oxygen delivery to key organ beds.1 The state of organ perfusion could ideally be assessed by a monitor of tissue oxygen-ation. An important contribution to the search for such a monitoring method is near-infrared spectroscopy, which can assess tissue oxygen sufficiency. This review will discuss the current state of our knowledge about near-infrared spectroscopy and its potential place in the surgical arena.