Influence of Pre-operative Risk Stratefiction and Intraoperaitve Monitoring on Perioperative Volume Therapy and Postoperative Outcome

It is difficult in the majority of cases to estimate the correct intra-operative mass of fluid therapy for each patient und needs a high degree of clinical experience. Among circumstances and problems of surgery (kind of surgery, length of time, bleeding, loss of liquid via wound) and kind of anesthesia, are also the concomitant diseases of patients relevant for the action of all anesthetists. These concomitant diseases correct to detect and to deduce corresponding consequences calls likewise for high clinical experience. Furthermore, the pre-operative fasting is an important fact.

Considering all these influencing factors the anesthetist tends rather to apply to much volume during surgery, followed by much more problems in PACU and / or intensive care unit.

However, how much volume is correct for which patient during which kind of surgery? How could the investigators estimate the really intra vessel volume deficit? Which available parameters are helpful, which monitoring is useful? These questions confront daily every anesthetist.

Monitoring of clinical "traditional" factors such as diuresis, blood pressure und heart rate are from experience to inexactly. Actually exist in the experts no uniform opinion about the kind and amount of fluid administration, which to apply, as well as the adequate monitoring. The central venous pressure, a commonly used parameter, is falling more and more behind.

Cardiac filling pressures correlate bad with filling volume and are unsuitable parameters for fluid therapy. It seems that dynamic parameters such as stroke volume (SV) and stroke volume variation (SVV) are better markers. SV and SVV could be measured by usual invasive blood pressure via LiDCO- or FloTrac-Monitoring.