Study Biomed Tech (Berl) 1997

Transcranial cerebral oximetry in the hyperbaric environment

Litscher G, Schwarz G, Ratzenhofer-Komenda B, Kovac H, Gabor S, Smolle-Jüttner F — Biomed Tech (Berl), 1997

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Summary

What Researchers Did

Researchers monitored brain oxygen levels in 7 healthy volunteers during normal and hyperbaric oxygen treatments at 2.5 and 1.95 ATA.

What They Found

They found a significant change in regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) between hyperbaric oxygen and control phases (p < 0.05). This suggests that measuring rSO2 could be a useful way to track oxygen saturation changes under hyperbaric conditions.

Canadian Relevance

No direct Canadian connection identified.

Study Limitations

A key limitation is that the absolute measurement of regional cerebral oxygen saturation is not currently useful and requires more research.

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Study Details

Study Type	Study
Category	Uncategorised
Source	Pubmed
PubMed ID	9112799
Year Published	1997
Journal	Biomed Tech (Berl)
MeSH Terms	Adult; Brain; Female; Humans; Hyperbaric Oxygenation; Male; Middle Aged; Monitoring, Physiologic; Oximetry; Oxygen Consumption; Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared

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