Journal of Clinical Trials
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Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to identify pain in children

International Conference on Clinical Trials

July 27-29, 2015 Orlando-FL, USA

Yifei Jiang

ScientificTracks Abstracts-Workshop: J Clin Trials

Abstract :

Pain occurs in children after surgery or with certain diseases and conditions. Many children cannot communicate pain
because they are too young or neurologically impaired. Based upon functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the
prefrontal cortex plays an important role in pain perception; the fMRI BOLD signal in this area correlates with painful stimuli
in healthy adults. Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive, portable, optical technology that measures
changes in oxy-, deoxy- and total hemoglobin (HbO2, Hb, HbT) in the frontal cortex. Our prior study found that fNIRS detected
frontal cortex HbO2 and HbT changes analogous to fMRI BOLD changes to painful stimuli in adolescents under anesthesia.
In this study, we evaluated fNIRS to detect painful stimuli in young children under anesthesia and in adolescents with chronic
pain. Our goal is to develop a non-invasive device to objectively measure pain to improve pediatric pain management.

Biography :

Yifei Jiang received her MD and PhD. in Anesthesiology from Wenzhou Medical University and postdoctoral training at Cincinnati Children’s Hosptial. Her research
focused on anesthetic neurotoxicity and fNIRS to detect and predict pain in children