Fiber-optic Monitoring of Spinal Cord Hemodynamics in Experimental Aortic Occlusion

Author:

Kogler Angela S.1,Bilfinger Thomas V.1,Galler Robert M.1,Mesquita Rickson C.1,Cutrone Michael1,Schenkel Steven S.1,Yodh Arjun G.1,Floyd Thomas F.1

Affiliation:

1. From the Departments of Anesthesiology (A.S.K., M.C., T.F.F.), Surgery (T.V.B.), and Neurological Surgery (R.M.G.), Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (A.S.K., T.F.F.); Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (R.C.M., S.S.S., A.G.Y.); a

Abstract

Abstract Background Spinal cord ischemia occurs frequently during thoracic aneurysm repair. Current methods based on electrophysiology techniques to detect ischemia are indirect, non-specific, and temporally slow. In this article, the authors report the testing of a spinal cord blood flow and oxygenation monitor, based on diffuse correlation and optical spectroscopies, during aortic occlusion in a sheep model. Methods Testing was carried out in 16 Dorset sheep. Sensitivity in detecting spinal cord blood flow and oxygenation changes during aortic occlusion, pharmacologically induced hypotension and hypertension, and physiologically induced hypoxia/hypercarbia was assessed. Accuracy of the diffuse correlation spectroscopy measurements was determined via comparison with microsphere blood flow measurements. Precision was assessed through repeated measurements in response to pharmacologic interventions. Results The fiber-optic probe can be placed percutaneously and is capable of continuously measuring spinal cord blood flow and oxygenation preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. The device is sensitive to spinal cord blood flow and oxygenation changes associated with aortic occlusion, immediately detecting a decrease in blood flow (−65 ± 32%; n = 32) and blood oxygenation (−17 ± 13%, n = 11) in 100% of trials. Comparison of spinal cord blood flow measurements by the device with microsphere measurements led to a correlation of R2 = 0.49, P < 0.01, and the within-sheep coefficient of variation was 9.69%. Finally, diffuse correlation spectroscopy is temporally more sensitive to ischemic interventions than motor-evoked potentials. Conclusion The first-generation spinal fiber-optic monitoring device offers a novel and potentially important step forward in the monitoring of spinal cord ischemia.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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