Information de reference pour ce titreAccession Number: | 00002953-199802000-00020.
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Author: | Brown, Lawrence H. EMT-P; Gough, John E. MD; Seim, Rosa H. MD
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Institution: | *From the Department of Emergency Medicine (Mr. Brown and Dr. Gough), East Carolina University School of Medicine, and the Department of Emergency Medicine (Drs. Gough and Seim), Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC. This study was supported in part by BCI International, which made the quantitative capnometer available to the investigators at no cost. Manuscript received April 8, 1997; revision accepted August 12.
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Title: | Can Quantitative Capnometry Differentiate Between Cardiac and Obstructive Causes of Respiratory Distress?*[Article]
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Source: | Chest. 113(2):323-326, February 1998.
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Abstract: | Study objective: To determine whether quantitative measurement of end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) can differentiate between cardiac and obstructive causes of respiratory distress.
Design: Prospective observational study.
Setting: Emergency department (ED) of a tertiary care hospital.
Patients: Adult patients who presented to the ED with moderate-to-severe dyspnea. Patients were excluded if they were unable to cooperate with the performance of peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) or ETCO2 tests, were younger than 18 years of age, or had received prehospital intervention for their respiratory distress.
Interventions: Physicians obtained an ETCO2 level and PEFR prior to ED pharmacologic intervention. A hand-held capnometer with digital read-out was used to obtain the ETCO2 level. The patient's age, sex, initial vital signs, breath sounds and medication history, the presence or absence of diaphoresis and/or orthopnea, the duration of symptoms, the chest radiograph interpretation, and final diagnosis were also recorded.
Measurements and results: Forty-two patients were eligible for inclusion in the analysis. The mean ETCO2 level was 31.1 +/- 9.4 mm Hg; the mean PEFR was 161.3 +/- 53.1 L/min. The ETCO2 levels for pulmonary edema/congestive heart failure (CHF) patients differed significantly from those of asthma/COPD patients (27.1 +/- 7.8 mm Hg vs 33.4 +/- 9.6 mm Hg; p=0.0375). However, no single ETCO2 level was found to be a reliable predictor of diagnosis.
Conclusion: ETCO2 levels for pulmonary edema/CHF patients differ significantly from those of asthma/COPD patients. However, no single ETCO2 level reliably differentiates between the two disease processes. (CHEST 1998; 113:323-26)
Copyright (C) 1998 by the American College of Chest Physicians
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Language: | English.
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Document Type: | Clinical Investigations: COPD.
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Journal Subset: | Clinical Medicine.
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ISSN: | 0012-3692
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NLM Journal Code: | 0231335, d1c
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