Real-time monitoring of complex surgical lab animal models

Blood gas analysers provide point of care tests for oximetric, electrolyte, and metabolic readouts of different fluids (blood, urine, bile, cerebrospinal fluid …). Real-time read-outs of these parameters are essential for monitoring anesthetized large animals, the fetus or the isolated organs (liver, kidney, lung perfused outside the body) as part of research in complex lab animal models. These parameters need to be monitored at a frequency that is similar to invasive interventions and surgery in humans. The focus of the 6 research lines requiring real-time blood gas analysis are diverse, from isolated organ perfusion, over traumatic brain injury, optimization of fetoscopic spina bifida surgery to gut ischemia.

Keywords:Transplantation, Machine perfusion, Fetoscopy, Spinida bifida, Traumatic brain injury, Cranial window model, Ischemia reperfusion

Disciplines:Transplantation surgery, Gynaecological surgery, Neurosurgery