Review Article

Should We Monitor ScVO2 in Critically Ill Patients?

Table 1

Summary of the studies comparing SvO2 and ScvO2 in humans or in experimental models.

Author (year)Type of patients ConclusionCorrelation coefficient

Tahvanainen et al. [13] (1982)Intensive care (42)ScvO2 = SvO2NC
Wendt et al. [14] (1990)Intensive care (19)ScvO2 ~ SvO20,78
Kong et al. [15] (1990)Kidney failure (8)ScvO2 ~ SvO2NC
Berridge et al. [16] (1992)Intensive care (51)ScvO2 = SvO20,92
Herrera et al. [17] (1993)Thoracic surgery (23)ScvO2 = SvO2NC
Pieri et al. [18] (1995)Major surgery (39)ScvO2 SvO2, nonsubstituable0,90
Ladakis et al. [19] (2001)Intensive care (61)ScvO2 = SvO20,94
Reinhart et al. [11] (2004)Intensive care (32)ScvO2 ~ SvO20,81
Chawla et al. [20] (2004)Intensive care (53)ScvO2 > SvO20.88
Dueck et al. [21] (2005)Neurosurgery (70)ScvO2 SvO2, substituable evolution≥0,75
Ho et al. [22] (2010)Intensive careScVO2 SvO2, nonsubstituableNC