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This is why the leading patient safety organizations now recommend that all patients – not only those identified as higher risk – are monitored for depth of respiration with Capnography. The lives of your patients depend on the decisions you make about patient safety technologies to make patient care safer and easier.

I hope you find the information here helpful in making good decisions for your hospital and your patients.

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Did you know…

• Respiratory depression from the administration of pain medication is a leading cause of preventable death in hospitals, creating an increasing source of medical liability
• Post-operative respiratory failure is the third most common patient safety incident in hospitals each year, affecting an estimated 600,000 patients at a cost of $1.5 billion. (April 2009 HealthGrades® report shows post–operative respiratory failure at a cost of &1.82 billion)
• Relying on respiratory rate and/or pulse oximetry to detect respiratory distress, without measuring exhaled CO₂, leaves patients at risk for respiratory failure
• The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) recommends that all patients be monitored for depth of respiration, not just respiratory rate

Every hospital in the country – including yours – is using capnography in the operating room, where it is the American Society of Anesthesiologists standard of care to prevent respiratory distress for patients under anesthesia. That same technology is now the gold standard at the bedside, an easy–to–use, cost-effective way to protect the lives of patients on post-operative floors.

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