[Capnography. A new monitoring method may improve patient safety during anesthesia and in the recovery room].
This review describes the diagnostic possibilities of capnography: the graphic presentation of carbon dioxide concentrations in respiratory gas during the entire respiratory cyclus. The monitoring may confirm that the tube used for intubating the patient's trachea is positioned in the patient's airway, and indicates dysfunction of the tube or of the ventilator. Capnography can also rapidly provide important information about a patient's ventilation, circulation and metabolism. This may improve patient safety during anaesthesia and in the intensive care unit. Patients without artificial airways may also be monitored by capnography. The method may reduce the number of arterial blood gases required to check the degree of ventilation.
Anestesiavdelingen Rikshospitalet, Oslo.
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D000768:Anesthesia, General; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D016528:Postanesthesia Nursing / Q000379:methods; D012449:Safety
D002245:Carbon Dioxide
Kapnografi. Ny monitorering som kan bedre pasientsikkerheten ved anestesi og i overvåkingsavdeling.