END-TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION AS AN INDICATOR OF PULMONARY BLOOD FLOW DURING CLOSED HEART SURGERY IN CHILDREN

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1 December 1985

journal article
case report
Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia

Vol. 57 (12) , 1257-1259
https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/57.12.1257

Abstract

The value of the continuous monitoring of end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration as an indicator of the acute intraoperative interruption of pulmonary blood flow, in patients with pre-existing restrictions of pulmonary blood flow undergoing closed heart surgery, is illustrated by two case reports. Decreases in end-tidal carbon dioxide concentration often appeared several minutes before the changes in systemic haemodynamics.

Keywords

CARDIAC SURGERY PROCEDURES
PULMONARY CIRCULATION
END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION
CHILD
INTRAOPERATIVE CARE
HEMODYNAMICS

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