Know your anaesthetic monitoring: What does it tell you and where do the pitfalls lie?

Accurate interpretation of anaesthetic monitoring is essential for patient safety, but monitoring data can be misleading if its limitations are not understood.

In this webinar, Dr. Nina Gasparik-Küls, Anaesthesia Specialist, provides a practical overview of everyday anaesthetic monitoring, focusing on what each monitoring modality truly tells us, where errors commonly occur, and how to recognise artefact versus genuine physiological change.

The session covers key principles behind pulse oximetry, capnography, blood pressure monitoring (non-invasive and invasive), and ECG, with clear explanations of how measurements are generated and why readings may be inaccurate. Emphasis is placed on common pitfalls, waveform interpretation, and strategies to improve monitoring accuracy in clinical practice.

By the end of the webinar, delegates will be more confident in interpreting monitoring trends, identifying unreliable readings, and using monitoring information to support safer anaesthetic decision-making.

Nina Gasparik-Küls

Anaesthesia Specialist

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Nina is a specialist in veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia, currently based in Vienna, Austria. After graduation from the Veterinary University of Gießen, Germany, Nina worked in mixed animal practice in Canada and Germany before pursuing a residency in anaesthesia at the Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh. After a few years of working as a senior lecturer at the Veterinary University in Vienna she is now heading the anaesthesia service at the Vetklinikum, Vienna, Austra.