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Purpose of the Review
The purpose of this work is to provide a brief review of noninvasive cardiovascular and brain monitoring tools that could potentially decrease neurological complications in the perioperative period.
Recent Findings
Noninvasive continuous blood pressure monitoring, cardiac output monitoring, pulse contour analysis, and esophageal doppler can be combined with electroencephalogram and brain oximetry in order to improve patient safety by detecting cerebral insults early, allowing appropriate intervention to be made.
Summary
Aging population is one of the most salient and ever-expanding issues affecting healthcare for the foreseeable future. Defining and implementing optimal perioperative care for this aging population is of increasing importance. During surgery, preserving brain perfusion is probably one of the most important parts of hemodynamic management and can be appropriately achieved by using several available cardiovascular and neurologic monitoring tools.
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Susana Vacas declares that she has no conflict of interest.
Takashige Yamada declares that he has no conflict of interest.
Maxime Cannesson has served as a consultant for Edwards Lifesciences and Masimo, is a co-founder of Sironis, and has a patent on closed-loop hemodynamic optimization licensed to Edwards Lifesciences.
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Vacas, S., Yamada, T. & Cannesson, M. Intraoperative Noninvasive Cardiovascular and Brain Monitoring in the Elderly. Curr Anesthesiol Rep 7, 373–379 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40140-017-0237-2
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