Search Tag: Respiratory monitoring
2025 15 Apr
Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is characterised by hypoaxemia, which may be accompanied by hypoventilation, hypercapnia, or isolated acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure (AHRF). This condition results in an inability to deliver adequate oxygen to organs and remove CO2, leading to acid-base imbalances. Although supplemental oxygen can sometimes alleviate...Read more
2019 24 Jan
Reviews the potential uses and pitfalls of capnography in critically ill patients, especially for haemodynamic and respiratory monitoring. Expired CO 2 can be easily monitored in the intensive care unit (ICU), especially in patients under invasive mechanical ventilation, using infrared measurement by sampling mainstream expiratory flow...Read more
2013 18 May
A recent large prospective cohort study conducted on different types of surgery has demonstrated that the incidence of in-hospital mortality and postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs)is relatively high. Moreover, PPCs are associated with prolonged hospital stay and higher hospital mortality (Pearse et al. 2012).Ongoing studies are trying to...Read more