Analogies of Veterinary Patient Monitoring: Invasive is to non-invasive as ETCO2 is to?

Course Details

This lecture has been RACE approved for 0.5 CE hour for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the relationship between ETCO2 and PaCO2 through the review of limitations of non-invasive ventilatory monitoring with capnography as it compared to its invasive counterpart, blood gas analysis.
• Review the importance of monitoring ventilation in intubated patients including review of the capnogram and types of capnography units (i.e. side stream and mainstream).
• Explore the future potential these values comparing ETCO2 with PaCO2 and how that may influence your patient management.
• Reinforce the value of invasive monitoring counterpart, arterial blood gas analysis to evaluate the partial pressure of carbon dioxide of arterial blood in critical patients.