Discover how Woman’s Hospital cut blood gas draws by 50% using transcutaneous CO₂ monitoring, standardized protocols, and staff-led care improvements.

Explore how transcutaneous CO₂ monitoring delivers noninvasive, real-time insights to support better outcomes for both clinicians and patients.

Quality improvement projects are driving change in healthcare. This issue spotlights five impactful initiatives improving safety, efficiency, and care delivery.

Discover how Woman’s Hospital cut blood gas draws by 50% using transcutaneous CO₂ monitoring, standardized protocols, and staff-led care improvements.

Every aspect of neonatal care matters, from the sounds infants hear to their exposure to light. Kangaroo care, also known as kangaroo mother care or skin-to-skin contact, is a method of holding a newborn baby on the bare chest of the mother or father, with their skin in direct contact.

Continuous CO2 monitoring is a powerful tool that can help NICU nurses as they advocate for their tiny patients. Discover 4 ways it can help amplify your voice.

Patients in the NICU are among the most delicate residents in the hospital, yet studies have shown as many as 17 painful procedures being performed on neonates each day. Many painful procedures are related to blood draws for lab tests used to monitor patients and titrate support.

Blood draws for lab work are well-established as one of the main drivers of anemia of prematurity leading to a high rate of transfusion in the NICU. Learn more about the problem and how transcutaneous monitoring can be part of the solution.

Lisa DeGuzman, RRT-NPS, RPSGT, CCSH discusses the role of transcutaneous CO2 monitoring in the Nemours Children’s Hospital Pediatric Sleep Center, highlighting its applications in detecting and guiding the management of sleep-disordered breathing among the pediatric population.

In this article, Anne M. Geistkemper, MSc, RRT, RRT-NPS discusses the practical applications of transcutaneous CO2 monitoring in the NICU, its integration into neonatal care practices, and the evolution of this technology’s adoption in the Rush University Children’s Hospital NICU.