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Procedural sedation
What are the risks of procedural sedation?
During procedural sedation, there’s often a concern that a sedated patient’s spontaneous ventilation may become inadequate. And clinical evidence suggests that a patient’s sedation level does not remain stable during a procedure, and may change dangerously from moderate to deep1 – which can have an impact on their ability to breathe.
When you consider that only half of moderately sedated patients achieve their target level of sedation2, and that similar patients can react differently to a similar sedative dose, the risks become more apparent.
Respiratory events are more prevalent than you may think:
- Only 50% of moderately sedated patients achieved their target level.2
- 20% of patients experienced respiratory related events requiring interventions.3
What is the advice for capnography during procedural sedation?
In the past, there has been some confusion about the advice of clinical societies with regard to capnography. However, there is a growing wave of societies recommending continuous capnography along with pulse oximetry, as an alert to changes in oxygenation and ventilation – two key factors in detecting respiratory related adverse events in their early stages.4
In fact, more than 65 scientific and clinical societies now consider capnography as the standard of care – and recommend its use during procedural sedation.4
Capnography can help you to reduce these respiratory related events:
- The incidence of respiratory adverse events can decrease by up to 55% with capnography.5
- Capnography is considered as the standard of care, by over 65 clinical societies.4
Capnography in guidelines
To help you understand the advice, Medtronic has produced an eBook on Clinical Society Guidelines for Capnography Monitoring, enabling you to:
- Read about some of the clinical societies publishing guidelines and standards for capnography monitoring
- View guideline and recommendation summaries
- Gain insight on specific recommendations
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Contact us to learn more about the solutions Medtronic has available: we can help you understand the positive impact that effective capnography monitoring could have on your organisation, and the patients you care for.
Is there an unjustified barrier to the use of capnography?
Despite respiratory events being the most common adverse event associated with procedural sedation1, there are still objections to the use of capnography on the grounds of cost.5
But in fact, when compared to the possible economic burden linked to respiratory adverse events, capnography is overall cost-saving – with one study quantifying a saving of €55 per 100 patients.5
What 3 solutions are available?
Would you like to optimize your patients' monitoring during procedural sedation? 4,5
Contact us to learn more about the solutions Medtronic has available: we can help you understand the positive impact that effective capnography monitoring could have on your organisation, and the patients you care for.