How can transcutaneous monitoring help support your neonatal patients?

Sentec transcutaneous technology overcomes many of the current limitations and challenges associated with CO2 measurement in the NICU by providing accurate, continuous, noninvasive CO2 values regardless of ventilation method or V/Q mismatch. Sentec transcutaneous monitoring provides consistent, independent CO2 measurement all while promoting neuroprotective efforts to deliver clustered care, protect skin integrity, and reduce the frequency of blood draws.

This paper explores the clinical utility of transcutaneous monitoring in the NICU as highlighted in the literature, covering: 

  • The importance of CO2 monitoring in the NICU, for both protecting the brain from IVH as well as properly implementing lung protective ventilatory strategies
  • The risks associated with arterial blood gases and capillary heel sticks, such as blood loss, infection, and pain
  • How transcutaneous CO2 monitoring can help reduce the frequency of blood draws in the NICU
  • The limitations of blood gases as a single point-in-time measurement, and how continuous CO2 monitoring may reduce the time neonatal patients spend outside normal CO2 ranges
  • How end tidal CO2 can underestimate PaCO2, is often infeasible and/or inaccurate in the NICU population, and is incompatible with lung-friendly high frequency ventilation methods
  • The demonstrated safety of Sentec’s digital transcutaneous monitoring for preterm infant skin
  • The indication of transcutaneous monitoring in multiple practice guidelines
transcutaneous monitoring in the NICU: clinical utility and impact

How can transcutaneous CO2 monitoring help support your neonatal patients?

Sentec transcutaneous technology overcomes many of the current limitations and challenges associated with CO2 measurement in the NICU by providing accurate, continuous, noninvasive CO2 values regardless of ventilation method or V/Q mismatch. Sentec transcutaneous monitoring provides consistent, independent CO2 measurement all while promoting neuroprotective efforts to deliver clustered care, protect skin integrity, and reduce the frequency of blood draws.

This paper explores the clinical utility of transcutaneous monitoring in the NICU as highlighted in the literature, covering:

  • The importance of CO2 monitoring in the NICU, for both protecting the brain from IVH as well as properly implementing lung protective ventilatory strategies
  • The risks associated with arterial blood gases and capillary heel sticks, such as blood loss, infection, and pain
  • How transcutaneous CO2 monitoring can help reduce the frequency of blood draws in the NICU
  • The limitations of blood gases as a single point-in-time measurement, and how continuous CO2 monitoring may reduce the time neonatal patients spend outside normal CO2 ranges
  • How end tidal CO2 can underestimate PaCO2, is often infeasible and/or inaccurate in the NICU population, and is incompatible with lung-friendly high frequency ventilation methods
  • The demonstrated safety of Sentec’s digital transcutaneous monitoring for preterm infant skin
  • The indication of transcutaneous monitoring in multiple practice guidelines

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