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LifeSense in pre-hospital care (PDF)
Measuring EtCO2 is a standard procedure during intensive care and anesthesia. The monitors used to be bulky and expensive, but today's technology makes them both compact and inexpensive. The combination of pulsoximetry and capnography is an effective tool in the postoperative care. Being able to monitor the EtCO2 concentration gives prehospital providers useful information about both ventilation and perfusion making the EtCO2 monitors a useful prehospital tool...
Monitoring during anesthesia (PDF)
What monitoring makes sense during general anesthesia? This question is hard to answer and is dependent on many different factors. The American Society of Anesthesiologists, ASA, has published a standard for intraoperative monitoring...
Respiratory monitoring (PDF)
What are the vital parameters in respiratory monitoring? Measuring oxygen saturation is a standard procedure for many respiratory disorders. A good saturation is an important parameter but does not say everything about the respiration. If oxygen is administrated, the patient can have a normal saturation but the alveolar ventilation is not enough to exhale the CO2 produced by the body. High concentration of CO2 during exhalation is a strong indication of insufficient respiration. The EtCO2 value together with the SpO2 gives a good picture of the quality of respiration: the uptake of oxygen, but also the ability to breath out the CO2...
