Should The Non Invasive Co2 Monitoring Be Used As A Part Of The Daily Routine

We compared practicality and trustworthiness of invasive arterial blood gas, noninvasive ventilator monitoring, transcutaneous monitoring and pulse oxymeter on the 20 patients whom we applied mechanical ventilation in ICU. The study included 100 synchronous measures including arterial blood gas, ventilator monitor measures, transcutaneous monitor measures and patient side monitor measures of patients. No statistically significant correlation is found between ETCO 2 and PtcCO 2 as well as ETCO 2 and blood gas PCO 2 measures. A positive and good level of statistically significant correlation is found between PtcCO 2 and blood gas PCO 2 measures (p 2 values which were measured with transcutaneous SPO 2 /PtcCO 2 monitor were fully correlated with blood gas CO 2 values, PtcCO 2 values are found to be superior to ETCO 2 values. When technical problems such as probe maintenance, sensor sensitivity and the need for frequent calibration are overcome, it is also considered that transcutaneous CO 2 monitoring will be an essential monitoring for ICU.