Capnography; And why not?

Abstract

Capnography has been inducted as a standard of anesthesia monitoring during perioperative care of the patients. It’s a simple, reliable and cost-effective tool having many clinical applications. Its uses range from operating rooms, accident and emergency wards, high dependency units, critical care units, pediatric critical care wards and post-operative recovery bays. Many factors, including non-availability, or lack of knowledge, negligence or laziness by the end-users, result in lack of use of such an essential monitoring resource at the expense of the patient safety. A change in attitude is the need of the hour for the medical staff towards its use and it has to be started now.

Key words: Capnography; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Monitoring; Perioperative care

Citation: Munir AA, Rana S. Capnography; And why not? Anaesth. pain intensive care 2022;27(1):01−02.

DOI: 10.35975/apic.v27i1.2129

Received: January 03, 2023; Accepted: January 06, 2023