| Autor: |
Outwater KM, Rockoff MA |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Critical care medicine [Crit Care Med] 1984 Apr; Vol. 12 (4), pp. 357-8. |
| DOI: |
10.1097/00003246-198404000-00003 |
| Abstrakt: |
The diagnosis of brain death requires absence of respiratory effort. Various protocols for apnea testing in adults have been reported; however, similar protocols have not been established for children. The technique of apneic oxygenation was used on 10 brain-dead children. PaO2 remained over 200 torr in all patients, and the mean PaCO2 increase was 4 torr/min. Five min of apneic oxygenation is a safe and effective means of evaluating respiratory activity in initially normocapnic children thought to be brain-dead. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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