PMID: 8599305Jan 1, 1995Paper

Oxygraphy in spontaneously breathing subjects

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica. Supplementum
V H LarsenB Oberg

Abstract

Continuous monitoring of O2 and CO2 in the airways of spontaneously breathing patients can be carried out by sampling air to a gas monitor through a catheter placed in the upper airway. The graphical display of O2 (oxygraphy) is a rather new facility. To describe the photo-acoustic and magneto-acoustic technique for CO2 and O2 monitoring in the open unintubated airway, to evaluate the efficacy of oxygen therapy by oxygraphy and to determine alveolar gas tensions and alveolar-arterial partial pressure gradients. O2 and CO2 fractions in the airways were monitored in 9 healthy subjects. Blood samples were drawn from the radial artery. The Multigas Monitor 1,304 (Brüel and Kjaer, Naerum, Denmark) was used; end-expiratory measurements were considered as representative for the alveolar gas composition. Arterial blood was analysed by ABL520 (Radiometer Medical A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark). Reliable tracings of gas fractions (FCO2 and FO2) were obtained during the respiratory cycle in all subjects. When oxygen was supplied, FO2 of the airway varied considerably during the inspiratory phase whereas it remained almost constantly during the expiratory phase. The end-expiratory FO2 increased from 0.15 breathing atmospheric air to 0.41 breathi...Continue Reading

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