Low Body Mass Index may impact the accuracy of Surgical Pleth Index to predict postoperative major pain

Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2020 Aug;39(4):543-544. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2020.05.017. Epub 2020 Jul 9.

Authors

I-Wen Chen¹, Kuo-Chuan Hung²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Centre, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Anaesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Centre, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: ed102605@gmail.com.

PMID: 32653549
DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2020.05.017

No abstract available

Keywords: Age; Body Mass Index; Heart rate variability; Postoperative pain; Receiver-operating characteristics; Surgical Pleth Index.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Body Mass Index
Humans
Monitoring, Intraoperative*
Pain, Postoperative* / diagnosis