Reliability of cerebral oximeter in non-invasive diagnosis and follow-up of hypercapnia

Abstract

In this study, aimed to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of cerebral oximetry and EtCO2 values in non-invasive diagnosis and monitoring of hypercapnia. This study enrolled pediatric patients admitted to and mechanically ventilated at the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine Hospital between January 2014 and January 2015. Patients’ age, gender, diagnosis, ventilatory parameters, a measured of the mean end-tidal carbon dioxide value stream method, and the simultaneously monitored arterial blood gas PaCO2 level and near infrared spectroscopy device (NIRS) measurements were recorded. The mean age of patients was 61 months (min 4-max 193), and there were 8 (53.4%) female and 7 (46.6%) male subjects. A significant correlation was found between PCO2 and NIRS, PCO2 and EtCO2 (r = 0.571, p