Capnography in Infants Ventilated With High Frequency Ventilation

Bnai Zion Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infants in NICU Ventilated With HFV

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00859209

68/08

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators hypothesize that dEtCO2 measured by the Microstream® technique via a double-lumen ETT in infants ventilated with HFV would be feasible and adequately represent the arterial CO2 (PaCO2).

Full description

All infants with double lumen ETT on HFV are eligible.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 minute to 2 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All intubated infants with double lumen ETT ventilated with HFV

Exclusion criteria

• Infants ventilated with single lumen ETT