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- noun The
monitoring of theconcentration or partial pressure ofcarbon dioxide in therespiratory gases , generally duringanaesthesia andintensive care .
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Examples
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It's called capnography, and it measures how much carbon dioxide is being expelled with each breath.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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To ensure Hospira's PCA technology remains a market leader, the company is investing to provide additional cutting-edge patient safety features, such as capnography monitoring designed to detect early respiratory depression and sophisticated clinical-decision support tools to help improve patient outcomes.
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Just last week, the AHA published course materials to teach emergency personnel how to use capnography.
96 Minutes Without a Heartbeat Ron Winslow 2011
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Without the information from capnography, he says it would have been reasonable to stop CPR - and Snitzer would have likely died.
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Next year, the fire department in Brook Park, Ohio will have five new capnography machines - compared to the one they have now.
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First responders didn't give up on him, thanks in part to capnography, a technology that let them know Snitzer still had a chance of coming back.
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White says that before the use of capnography, the only way of assessing blood flow to vital organs was by feeling for a pulse or by looking for dilated pupils.
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First responders didn't give up on him, thanks in part to capnography, a technology that let them know Snitzer still had a chance of coming back.
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But one of the flight nurses who came with the emergency helicopter had been trained in capnography.
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OK, that last data stream there is the capnography.
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