I did a spot on ETCO2 for Amal Mattu’s podcast a couple of weeks ago. I try to clear up some of the myths on the use of ETCO2.
Of course the most pervasive and potentially dangerous myth is that ETCO2=PaCO2.
Long story short, in our patients, it doesn’t.
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