Continuous real-time monitoring of the adequacy of cerebral perfusion can provide
important therapeutic information in a variety of clinical settings. The current clinical …

Physical exercise places high demands on the adaptive capacity of the human body.
Strenuous physical performance increases the blood supply to active muscles …

Adequate oxygen delivery to a tissue depends on sufficient oxygen content in arterial blood
and blood flow to the tissue. Oximetry is a technique for the assessment of blood …

Objective and quantitative intraoperative methods of bowel viability assessment are
essential in gastrointestinal surgery. Exact determination of the borderline of the viable …

This review provides an overview on the clinical management of chronic mesenteric
ischemia (CMI). CMI is defined as insufficient blood supply to the gastrointestinal tract, most …

Opioid overdose accounts for nearly 75,000 deaths per year in the United States, now a
leading cause of mortality among young people aged 18 to 45 years. At overdose levels …

Purpose Anastomotic leakage is associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
However, there is no accurate tool to predict its occurrence. We evaluated the predictive …

Endoscopes are used routinely in modern medicine for in-vivo imaging of luminal organs.
Technical advances in the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) and optical fields have …

Tissue hypoxia is a key feature of many important causes of morbidity and mortality. In
pathologies such as stroke, peripheral vascular disease and ischaemic heart disease …

The goal of this review is to summarize the major techniques that currently are being applied
to measure oxygenation of tissues in vivo. While such data would be extremely valuable …