Factors Complicating Interpretation of Capnography during Advanced Life Support in Cardiac Arrest—A Clinical Retrospective Study in 575 Patients: Heradstveit BE, Sunde K, Sunde GA, Wentzel-Larsen T, Heltne JK. Resuscitation 2012;83:813–8.

Factors complicating interpretation of c

Factors complicating interpretation of capnography during advanced life support in cardiac arrest—A clinical retrospective study in 575 patients

✍ Bård E. Heradstveit; Kjetil Sunde; Geir-Arne Sunde; Tore Wentzel-Larsen; Jon-Ken 📂 Article 📅 2012 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 272 KB

## Background: End tidal carbon dioxide (etco(2)) monitoring during advanced life support (als) using capnography, is recommended in the latest international guidelines. however, several factors might complicate capnography interpretation during als. how the cause of cardiac arrest, initial rhythm,