Monitoring of adult patients

Adverse patient events are more likely to be averted when trends are detected early. This is true for patients in a variety of clinical situations where the ventilation and oxygenation is affected.

Transcutaneous monitoring is a valuable tool, specifically in situations that generally preclude CO₂ monitoring such as non-invasive ventilation, oxygen titration and permissive hypercapnia to assess the respiratory status of a patient.

Did you know that non-invasive monitoring of tcpCO₂

• delivers continuous information on patients with respiratory shunt or V/Q mismatch
• detects hypercapnia in patients on supplemental oxygen
• supports a change in ventilator settings and weaning from ventilator

Monitoring of oxygen saturation (SpO₂) is a standard of care in various clinical situations and combined with transcutaneous tcpCO₂ it provides a complete picture of the ventilation and oxygenation status of a patient.

tcpCO₂ monitoring of hypercapnic patients during therapy allows for early detection of changes in ventilatory status and prevents CO₂ retention.