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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1982-10-12
pubmed:abstractText
Commercially available skin surface PCO2 sensors, when properly maintained, calibrated, and applied, report arterial PCO2 over a wide range of values and in virtually all clinical conditions to an accuracy of +/- 3 torr. Inappropriate mathematical treatment of in vivo skin surface-arterial PCO2 comparisons has led to controversy regarding the precise relationship between these variables. The proper method of calibration involves applying a temperature correction factor of 4.5%/degrees C to the calibration gas setting, and subtracting 4 torr by offsetting zero. For analysis of accuracy, the resulting corrected values should be used to determine the mean and standard deviation of the skin surface:arterial PCO2 ratio. Tests of correlation as a function of PaCO2 require deliberate wide variation of PCO2 within each subject of a test group. Skin surface PCO2 monitors record blood gas tensions continuously and noninvasively, and they can be used to study cardiorespiratory function in normal subjects, in whom arterial blood sampling would be difficult to justify--two distinct advantages of the devices.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0090-6689
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
16
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
150-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
Transcutaneous analysis of arterial PCO2.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article