For years, capnography has been used in the hospital setting to monitor airway and ventilation in the operating room as well as in the critical care environment. Unfortunately, for the most part its use has been limited to that setting by many issues, including overall awareness of the importance of capnography in pre-hospital settings,...
Use of End-tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring to Detect Occult Hypoventilation in patients receiving Opioids in the Pre-hospital and Emergency Department Settings
We evaluate the association between out-of-hospital use of continuous end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) monitoring and unrecognized misplaced intubations within a regional emergency medical services (EMS) system.