Capnography for Procedural Sedation and Analgesia in the Emergency Department
Although it is standard of care for patient safety monitoring in anesthesia, capnography is not routinely used for emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia. We discuss the use of capnography as a diagnostic monitoring modality for procedural sedation and analgesia, focusing on the physiology and interpretation of the CO2 waveform and recognition of normal, abnormal, and drug-induced ventilatory patterns.
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Supervising editor: Richard M. Levitan, MDFunding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article, that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.Available online January 12, 2007.Reprints not available from the authors.
PII: S0196-0644(06)02448-6
doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.10.016
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