Use in the ICU

Long term sedation in the intensive care unit (ICU) is routinely used for intubated patients, especially those with abnormal brain function due to traumatic brain injury. For these patients, rapid and reliable assessment of mental status is necessary in order to ascertain the stage of the disease and possible response to therapy.

XSensor Pro™ Propofol Monitoring for the ICU

Just like in the operating room, indirect parameters have been relied on to monitor and manage propofol infusion for the intubated ICU patient. Depth of sedation and ventilatory adequacy are monitored by a combination of blood pressure monitoring, heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and end-tidal carbon dioxide.

Xsensor Pro™ Propofol Monitor in this care setting has the potential to offer:

•  Easier control of patient emergence for periodic lucidity checks with minute-to-minute measurement of propofol concentration to blood levels
  
•  Additional diagnostics for poor mentation with visibility of minute-to-minute propofol concentration to blood levels
  
  •  If over sedation of propofol is a contributing factor of poor mentation tighter titration can be easily managed with the minute-to-minute propofol concentration to blood level measurement
    
•  An overall higher standard of patient care and improved hospital efficiencies can be achieved with a quicker and more definitive diagnosis of poor mentation of the ICU patient
  
  •  Critical tests can be ordered, as propofol contributing factor is quickly ruled out
    
  •  Propofol infusion rates are titrated at their optimum levels per patient
    
  •  Unnecessary tests can be avoided

XSensor Pro™  Propofol Monitoring – An Invaluable Safety Tool

Xhale believes that monitoring the propofol concentrations in the blood via exhaled breath will  provide healthcare professionals with an invaluable and necessary tool for the improved safety and care of their patients, not only in the ICU, but in any healthcare setting where propofol is used.