Changes in the Skin Conductance Monitor as an End Point for Sympathetic Nerve Blocks.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There is a lack of objective methods for determining the achievement of sympathetic block. This study validates the skin conductance monitor (SCM) as an end point indicator of successful sympathetic blockade as compared with traditional monitors.

Methods

This interventional study included 13 patients undergoing 25 lumbar sympathetic blocks to compare time to indication of successful blockade between the SCM indices and traditional measures, clinically visible hyperemia, clinically visible engorgement of veins, subjective skin temperature difference, unilateral thermometry monitoring, bilateral comparative thermometry monitoring, and change in waveform amplitude in pulse oximetry plethysmography, within a 30-minute observation period. Differences in the SCM indices

SUBMITTER: Gungor S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6279270 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature