[Cardiovascular monitoring and its consequences in oral surgery]

Abstract

The increasing number of high-risk patients in oral surgery makes it necessary to monitor the patient's general condition while operating. The surgeon needs a simple technical procedure to detect an impending clinical incident in time. From June 2002 to June 2004, 3012 patients underwent surgery in local anesthesia and were monitored with Colin BP 306 compact monitor. Heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation were checked non invasively during surgery. 17 times the operation was cancelled due to blood pressure problems. The treatment was cancelled twice due to cardiac arrhythmia. The average of the 19 patients' age was 63.5. Monitoring patients during surgery enables the surgeon to recognize high-risk situations immediately before the operation, to detect problem situations early and to avoid them, to work more calmly because of the enhanced security factor.