Lab House (India)

ETCO2 monitoring using capnography devices has application across several hospital and pre-hospital settings and, depending on the clinical area, the technology is at various stages of adoption. Anesthesiologists have been using capnography for decades to monitor ETCO2 in patients receiving general anesthesia

In the case of a mainstream configuration, the CO2 sensor and a sampling cell are integrated into a small device that connects directly at the airway, between the breathing circuit and endotracheal tube (ETT). Sidestream devices can monitor both intubated and non-intubated patients, while mainstream devices are most often limited to intubated patients.9,10 Sidestream measurement has been the most common type of ETCO2 measurement modality in Canadian facilities, even as a number of new, innovative, and ultraportable mainstream capnography devices are becoming available