Title of article
The effects of high Fresh Gas Flow in treatment of Pediatric Severe Hypercapnia During General Anesthesia: A Case Report
Author/Authors
Ahmadi ، Alireza - Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences , Ahmadi ، Abbas - Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
Pages
2
From page
363
To page
364
Abstract
Hypercapnia is a frequent event but severe hypercapnia is a harmful complication of general anesthesia. A 6 month-old Iranian baby boy who had an appendicitis under general anesthesia exhibited severe hypercapnia during surgery. Arterial blood gas revealed a PCO2 of 95mmHg. Troubleshooting immediately were taken, but the level of CO2 did not decline. Under that situation by elevating fresh gas flow to twice or three times, the hypercapnia decreased and by adjusting FGF we could reach the best end tidal PCO2 and paco2. This report will increase our experience about this phenomenon during anesthesia, how we can change the circle circuit of anesthesia machine concordant to decreasing dead space formation and hypercapnia.
Keywords
hypercapnia , high fresh gas flow , general anesthesiology
Journal title
Archives of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Serial Year
2017
Journal title
Archives of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Record number
2455667
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