Masimo PVI(R) Evaluated in 18-Study Meta-Analysis for Ability to Help Clinicians Assess Fluid Responsiveness

• Published in: Business Wire
• Format: Newsletter
• Language: English
• Published: New York Business Wire 08.10.2015
• Subjects: Blood; Confidence intervals; Hemoglobin; Intensive care; Meta-analysis; Patients; Risk factors; Studies; NEUCHATEL, Switzerland

MASI) announced today that an 18-study meta-analysis of 665 subjects reported that Masimo's Pleth Variability Index (PVI(R)), available with Masimo's SET(R) and rainbow(R) SET(R) monitoring platforms, may help clinicians assess fluid responsiveness in mechanically ventilated patients in normal sinus rhythm in the operating room and intensive care unit.1 Clinicians commonly use intravenous fluid administration in the operating room and intensive care unit to attempt to improve blood flow, or cardiac output.2 Administering either too little fluid or too much fluid can increase patient risk. 2 However, traditional "static" monitoring parameters such as central venous pressure (CVP) are considered unreliable to assess fluid responsiveness. 2 Therefore, experts recommend the use of "dynamic" parameters that measure physiologic variation over the respiratory cycle.3 Multiple dynamic parameters have been shown to help clinicians assess fluid responsiveness, but most dynamic parameters require invasive, complex, and/or costly methods.