Location
Salt Lake Community College Student Center
Start Date
5-4-2009 3:15 PM
Description
Hypercapnia is frequently used to accelerate emergence from anesthesia in the OR, but not in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU). To this end, a reemergence device has been proposed that will take advantage of hypercapnia to reduce recovery time and number of adverse clinical events experienced in the PACU. Interestingly enough, little has been reported concerning the respiration parameters (i.e CO2, O2, and anesthetic levels as well as tidal volume and minute volume) experienced by patients in the PACU. In order to determine the design criteria for such a device, we need to collect data regarding a patient’s status in the PACU. It is our hope to design a device similar to the QED-100 (Anecare, Salt Lake City, UT), that is small, mobile, versatile, and easy to operate so that it can be used in a wide variety of situations. This paper discusses the steps and system being designed to collect this data as a foundation for this work.
A Reemergence Device for the Postanesthesia Care Unit
Salt Lake Community College Student Center
Hypercapnia is frequently used to accelerate emergence from anesthesia in the OR, but not in the post anesthesia care unit (PACU). To this end, a reemergence device has been proposed that will take advantage of hypercapnia to reduce recovery time and number of adverse clinical events experienced in the PACU. Interestingly enough, little has been reported concerning the respiration parameters (i.e CO2, O2, and anesthetic levels as well as tidal volume and minute volume) experienced by patients in the PACU. In order to determine the design criteria for such a device, we need to collect data regarding a patient’s status in the PACU. It is our hope to design a device similar to the QED-100 (Anecare, Salt Lake City, UT), that is small, mobile, versatile, and easy to operate so that it can be used in a wide variety of situations. This paper discusses the steps and system being designed to collect this data as a foundation for this work.