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Podcast: Anesthesia Patient Safety Podcast
Episode: #272 Behind the Waveform: Critical Safety Implications of CO2 Sensor Selection
Description: Could your CO2 sensor be putting patients at risk? This eye-opening Rapid Response to Questions from our Readers episode explores a serious patient safety concern that every anesthesia professional needs to understand.We dive into two troubling cases where patients under general anesthesia developed respiratory acidosis despite normal-appearing monitoring parameters. The culprit? A semi-quantitative CO2 sensor being used in an operating room setting where it was never designed to function safely. Through detailed case analysis, we uncover how the Nihon Kohden cap-ONE TG920P CO2 analyzer—which operates on the assumption that inspired air contains zero CO2—fail...