Author(s)

Heping Zhou, Hongyan Xiong, Chunhu Gu, Tao Chen, Hailong Zhu, Guocheng Sun

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Central Hospital of Xi’an, Xi’an, China.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, the Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China.

Close monitoring of the balance between oxygen demand and supply is of great importance during cardiac cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) surgery. This study was to compare conventional intermittent venous blood gas monitoring with continuous transcutaneous oxygen and carbon dioxide monitoring in infant patients undergoing cardiac surgery with CPB. According to paired data from 29 infant patients undergoing cardiac surgery we found that a positive correlation existed between the two techniques, with a correlation coefficient 0.9021 and 0.8021 for PO₂ and PCO₂ respectively. It’s concluded that transcutaneous monitoring and intermittent venous blood sampling had good correlation and transcutaneous monitoring may be used conveniently and safely clinically during CPB.

Cardiopulmonary Bypass; Blood Gas; Transcutaneous Monitoring

Zhou, H. , Xiong, H. , Gu, C. , Chen, T. , Zhu, H. and Sun, G. (2012) Continuous transcutaneous monitoring of peripheral oxygen and carbon dioxide during infant cardiac surgery. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 3, 824-827. doi: 10.4236/abb.2012.37102.