Comparison Between Perfusion Index and Pulse Pressure Variability for Prediction of Intravascular Volume During Major Abdominal Surgeries

Each year, at least 310 million patients undergo major surgery worldwide, procedures that involve the administration of intravenous fluids Intraoperative hemodynamic management is challenging because precise assessment of the adequacy of the intravascular volume is difficult during surgery Achieving optimal IV fluid therapy should improve perioperative outcomes and is a key component in many perioperative guidelines and pathways. IV fluids, like other medications, should only be given in well-defined protocols according to individual needs More recently, so called dynamic predictors of fluid responsiveness such as pulse pressure variation (PPV), stroke volume variation (SVV), or Perfusion Index (PI) have been used in intraoperative goal directed fluid therapy ( GDT) hemodynamic protocols