title: Modified sampling connection for sidestream end tidal CO2 monitoring during pediatric anesthesia.
abstract: A modification to the sampling connection of Ohmeda 5200 CO2 monitor was done to abolish the increase in apparatus dead space induced by the patient circuit adapter. The modified and the original sampling connections [MSC & OSC] were compared regarding their effects on end tidal CO2 (PECO2), during surgery in 12 anesthetized spontaneously breathing infants and children. The MSC maintained normal PECO2, while it was significantly higher using the OSC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia, King Faisal University, King Fahad University Hospital, Al-Khubar, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: el-Attar
mesh_terms: D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D013990:Tidal Volume
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide