OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate a novel method of distal end-tidal CO2 capnography by comparison with PaCO2 and with the more standard method that measures mainstream proximal end-tidal CO2 in intubated infants. METHODS Included in the study were all infants who were ventilated with conventional mechanical ventilation and intubated with a double-lumen endotracheal tube i...

background: patients undergone mechanical ventilation need rapid and reliable evaluation of their respiratory status. monitoring of end-tidal carbon dioxide (etco2) as a surrogate, noninvasive measurement of arterial carbon dioxide (paco2) is one of the methods used for this purpose in intubated patients. objectives: the aim of the present trial was to study the relationship between end-tidal c...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of acute hypercapnia on surgery outcomes among patients receiving bronchoscopic interventions under general anesthesia. Furthermore, independent predictive factors for surgery complications were analyzed. METHOD A total of 323 patients with airway stenosis were enrolled in this retrospective study. Each patient underwent interventi...

Study objectives: Effects of chronic metabolic alkalosis and acidosis and their relation to central chemoregulation may differ between normocapnic and chronic hypercapnic patients with COPD. The relationship between responses of inspired ventilation (VI), mouth occlusion pressure (P0.1), and cerebral blood volume (CBV), to short-term changes in arterial PCO2 was measured. Patients and methods: ...

BACKGROUND In patients suffering from brain injury, end-tidal PCO2 (PETCO2 ) monitoring is controversial, but transcutaneous PCO2 (PtcCO2 ), which is noninvasive and utilizes immediate display, may be an alternative method. We hypothesized that PtcCO2 would be more accurate than PETCO2 for monitoring PaCO2 in patients with severe brain injury. METHODS A prospective observational study include...

Typically, the standard practice for measuring the arterial blood carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is to take intermittent blood samples for analysis by a bench blood gas analyzer. Continuous inline blood gas monitors are available but are expensive. A potential solution is the capnograph, which was evaluated by determining how accurately the carbon dioxide ten...

Background: Both end-tidal carbon dioxide pressure (ETCO2) is used routinely as an indicator of arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) and thus adequacy of ventilation. Accurate determination of the PaCO2 level in neuroanesthesia is quite important because of its effect on cerebral blood flow and also hyperventilation is often used to reduce intracranial pressure in neurosurgical p...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of inner and heard speech on cerebral hemodynamics and oxygenation in the anterior prefrontal cortex (PFC) using functional near-infrared spectroscopy and to test whether potential effects were caused by alterations in the arterial carbon dioxide pressure (PaCO2). Twenty-nine healthy adult volunteers performed six different tasks of inner and...

Background and Purpose—Dipyridamole increases the concentration of circulating adenosine, which is a potent vasodilator, by inhibition of uptake of adenosine into the erythrocytes, and hence produces coronary vasodilation. However, the effects of dipyridamole on cerebral circulation is not pronounced. This study investigates the effects of intravenous dipyridamole on cerebral blood flow (CBF) i...

A QUANTITATIVE relationship between arterial carbon dioxide tension (Paco2) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) measured indirectly by the nitrous oxide or 85krypton techniques has been demonstrated by many investigators in normal manl4 and in anesthetized man.5-8 We have calculated this relationship to be CBF =1.31 Paco2+ 7.3 from the data of Kety and Schmidt' 2 who studied unanesthetized healthy su...