Continuous transcutaneous carbon-dioxide monitoring to avoid hypercapnia in complex catheter ablations under conscious sedation

Ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias requires an immobilized patient. For a successful and safe intervention and for patient comfort, this can be achieved by conscious sedation. Administered sedatives and analgesics have respiratory depressant side effects and require close monitoring. We investigated the feasibility and accuracy of additional, continuous transcutaneous carbon-dioxide partial pressure (tpCO2) measurement during conscious sedation in complex electrophysiological catheter ablation procedures.

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - October 3, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Karolina Weinmann, Alexia Lenz, Regina Heudorfer, Deniz Aktolga, Manuel Rattka, Carlo Bothner, Alexander Pott, Wolfgang Öchsner, Wolfgang Rottbauer, Tillman Dahme Source Type: research