Capnography – Riding the Waves!

Anaesthesia & Analgesia | Veterinary Nursing | 54 mins

Capnography has evolved into an essential component for monitoring anaesthetised patients and capnography is included in the Standards of Mandatory Monitoring with the American Society of Anaesthesilogists and the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. Capnography provides information about CO2 production, pulmonary perfusion, ventilation, it is an indirect monitor of cardiac output and facilitates better detection of potentially life-threatening problems than clinical judgement alone.

Within this presentation, we will discuss basic physiology of the respiratory system, what capnography tells us and how it is measured, the capnography waveform, reasons for abnormalities in end-tidal carbon dioxide and the role of capnography in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

Meet the speakers

Janette Bailey-Woods

RVN, NCert (Anaesthesia & ECC), VTS (Anaesthesia & Analgesia)

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Janette qualified as an RVN in 2001 and worked in a mixed animal practice in Cumbria for 15 years. In 2013, Janette moved to work in an orthopaedic referral hospital before moving to Wear Referrals, a multi-discipline referral hospital in 2015, where she now works within the anaesthesia team as lead anaesthesia nurse. Janette has gained the NCert ECC and NCert Anaesthesia qualification, and in 2021 achieved the Veterinary Technician Specialist (VTS) in Anaesthesia and Analgesia, a prestigious credential awarded by the Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Anaesthesia and Analgesia and held by only a handful of veterinary nurses in the UK. Out of work, Janette has two dogs, Hector and Goose, she is an outdoor enthusiast, spending time in the forest where she lives, walking up mountains or being on 'Precilla' her much loved mountain bike!      

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