Sentec Digital Monitor

Feature

Overcoming limitations of arterial blood gases, etCO2 and SpO2 monitoring

Assessing ventilation in neonatal patients is a challenge. Maintaining normal PaCO2 ranges in neonates is important as abnormal PaCO2 valuesmay have detrimental effects on neonates’ brain and lungs. Neonates in critical care units often have fluctuations of PaCO21 .

Arterial blood gas sampling

provides only a snapshot every few hours and bears the risk of invasiveness, especially in neonatal patients2 , and is painful.

End-tidal CO2 (etCO2) monitoring

is sometimes inefficient in patients with small tidal volumes3 and inapplicable in certain ventilation modes such as HFO4 .

Measuring SpO2 alone

 is not sufficient to detect hyperventilation or hypoventilation. Changes of arterial CO2 levels can never be detected by SpO2 monitoring alone