A simple method of monitoring carbon dioxide output in anaesthetized patients.
The mean CO2 output during anaesthesia in paralyzed patients can be monitored by continuous capnographic analysis of the total exhaled gases, the latter being mechanically integrated by pumice canisters. The gas is evacuated from the Hafnia A circuit via an ejector flowmeter. The results are not influenced by the flow rates employed.
D000758:Anesthesia; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D012212:Rheology
D002245:Carbon Dioxide