Monitoring Microcirculation

Overview

Journal Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Anesthesiology

Date 2016 Dec 10

PMID 27931644

Citations 20

Authors

Isik Ocak

Atila Kara

Can Ince

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Abstract

The clinical relevance of microcirculation and its bedside observation started gaining importance in the 1990s since the introduction of hand-held video microscopes. From then, this technology has been continuously developed, and its clinical relevance has been established in more than 400 studies. In this paper, we review the different types of video microscopes, their application techniques, the microcirculation of different organ systems, the analysis methods, and the software and scoring systems. The main focus of this review will be on the state-of-art technique, CytoCam-incident dark-field imaging, and the most recent technological and technical updates concerning microcirculation monitoring.

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