Soo has any one heard of StO2??

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its new..and pretty much the most helpful vital sign that I have ever seen or used...finally, a noninvasive, real time bedside number that lets me know what is really happening w my patient.:yeah:

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Specializes in Cardiology.

I haven't seen StO2 used at bedside, but I have read about it. Are you using it at your facility? I'm very interested to hear how it works as the articles I've read didn't explain the actual set-up on the patient. From what I hear, it sounds like it's going to be of great value as a non-invasive correlation to SvO2.

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Specializes in ICU, CVICU.

We are trialing it at our hospital right now. None of my pts have had to use it yet but it seems pretty awesome. It is set up is like that of an O2 sat monitor- its that easy.

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I haven't heard of this, can you explain it a little bit and how the set up for monitoring it looks? Thanks! Great post.

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Specializes in ICU, CVICU.

I think this is the one we are using (I'm not advocating or advertising this company's product but I think this best demonstrates what it is).

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I don't know...I'm not convinced (granted I just perused the website). I understand the idea but it seems like it would give me information that I could glean just by looking at the patient or thinking about what's potentially going on. Decreased cap refil, decreased perfusion. blue hands, decreased perfusion. Cold extremeties, decreased perfusion. If it was pocket sized or could be attached to preexisting monitors I could see hospitals going for it, but right now it seems like too much infrastructure would need to be put in for one more number...attached to a big monitor. Just my two cents.

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