Arterial and end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure difference during prehospital anaesthesia in critically ill patients

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
Heini Harve-RytsäläJouni Nurmi

Abstract

Normoventilation is crucial for many critically ill patients. Ventilation is routinely guided by end-tidal capnography during prehospital anaesthesia, based on the assumption of the gap between arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2 ) and end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure (PetCO2 ) of approximately 0.5 kPa (3.8 mmHg). We retrospectively analysed the airway registry and patient chart data of patients who had been anaesthetised and intubated endotracheally by the prehospital critical care team and had their prehospital arterial blood gases analysed. Bland-Altman analysis was used to estimate the bias and limits of agreement. Altogether 502 patients were included in the study, with a median age of 58 years. The most common patient groups were post-resuscitation (155, 31%), neurological emergencies (96, 19%), intoxication (75, 15%) and trauma (68, 14%). The median of the gap between PaCO2 and PetCO2 was 1.3 kPa (interquartile range 0.7 to 2.2) (9.8 (5.3-16.5) mmHg). Mean bias of PetCO2 was -1.6 kPa/12.0 mmHg (standard deviation 1.7 kPa/12.8 mmHg) with 95% confidence limits of agreement -4.9 to 1.9 kPa (-36.8 to 14.3 mmHg). The gap was ≥1.0 kPa (>7.5 mmHg) in 297 (66%, 95% confidence interval 55 to 63) patients. ...Continue Reading

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