by Troy Valente | Oct 10, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
The word “capnography” is derived from a Latin twist based on an original Greek concept. The Greeks first wrote about combustion centers throughout the body that they said released a byproduct called “Kapnos,” or in Latin, “Capnos”; both are words for...
by Troy Valente | Sep 25, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
The capnography waveform, not the ETCO2 number, is used for airway assessment. If the patient ventilates, or you ventilate the patient, and a boxy waveform appears, then that breath is patent and went in and out of the lungs unobstructed. When your patient...
by Troy Valente | Sep 25, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
Capnography is the only tool in the universe that is non-invasive, in real time and simultaneously assesses a patient’s airway patency, quality of breathing, perfusion/shock status and metabolic state. How does it work? What does the waveform tell you vs....
by Troy Valente | Sep 25, 2019 | EMSAirway Premium
While quantitative waveform capnography and pulse oximetry are both infrared technologies and may seem like similar measurements, they assess very different things. Capnography is a direct measurement of ventilation and, indirectly, circulatory and metabolic...
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