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3 Hardware options
• Inspect CO
2
cuvettes/sensors regularly. Patient
secretions in airway curvettes might lead to
wrong PetCO
2
reading.
• DO NOT use the sidestream CO
2
sensor with the
automatic management of the %MinVol.
CAUTION
• Only position airway adapters with windows in
a vertical position. This helps keep patient
secretions from pooling on the windows.
• To prevent premature failure of the CO
2
sensor,
HAMILTON MEDICAL recommends you remove
it from the circuit whenever an aerosolized
medication is delivered. (This is due to the
increased viscosity of the medication, which
may contaminate the airway adapter window.)
• All devices are not protected against the effect
of the discharge of a cardiac defibrillator.
• Inspect the CO
2
cuvettes/sensors regularly.
Patient secretions in airway cuvettes might lead
to a wrong PetCO
2
reading.
• DO NOT use sidestream CO
2
with automatic
management of %MinVol.
• The Alarm Silence button suppresses the physi-
ological CO
2
alarm for <120 s.
CO
2
monitoring is used for various applications to gain infor-
mation, such as the assessment of the patients airway integrity
or the proper endotracheal tube placement. For this device
there are two methods used to monitor the CO
2
:
• mainstream CO
2
measurement
• sidestream CO
2
measurement
The clinical settings determine regardless of the method, main-
stream or sidestream, the end-tidal CO
2
.
A volumetric capnogram (as described in Appendix E) is only
possible with a mainstream CO
2
sensor.
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