Oridion Knowledge Center

The Oridion Knowledge Center offers free, accredited online continuing education courses for medical professionals. These programs provide comprehensive learning modules related to using etCO₂ monitoring in various clinical settings, and how it may increase patient safety in these clinical environments.

Choose from the self-paced courses listed below. Please note: In the US, some courses may be used to meet or accumulate contact hour requirements for re-licensure.

Oridion Knowledge Center Brochure (US)

Oridion Knowledge Center Brochure (Europe and rest of the world)

Courses for Continuing Education Credits:

• A Guide to Capnography during Procedural Sedation
• A Guide to Capnography in the Management of the Critically Ill
• A Guide to Monitoring etCO₂ During Opioid Delivery

Education Courses (no credits available):

• Capnography for the intubated and non-intubated patient in pre-hospital care
• Buttonology for the handheld monitors
• Buttonology for the Capnostream bedside monitor

A Guide to Capnography during Procedural Sedation

• For Nurses ^*Click here
• For Respiratory Care ^*Click Here
• For English version ( European) – no continuing education credits available Click Here

Respiratory depression is a widely recognized possible complication of sedation and analgesic administration. Ventilation monitoring using capnography has been determined to be the earliest indicator of hypoventilation and episodes of no-breath. This lecture will discuss ventilation monitoring using capnography during procedural sedation. The activity will:

• Demonstrate how to utilize capnography to continuously monitor ventilation during procedural sedation
• Review the concepts and common terms associated with capnography, as well as the physiology surrounding this application
• Discuss moderate and deep sedation, how capnography is utilized to monitor both, and why it is integral in the care of the sedated patient
• Review current Joint Commission regulations
• Review common abnormal waveforms associated with sedation and the appropriate interventions

A Guide to Capnography in the Management of the Critically Ill

• For Nurses ^*Click here
• For Respiratory Care ^*Click Here
• For English version ( European) – no continuing education credits available Click Here

The purpose of this educational activity is to provide an overview of capnography monitoring in the management of critically ill patients. This activity includes:

• Overview of capnography
• Review of the physiology surrounding its application, and a discussion of normal etCO₂ values to include what conditions cause the values to increase and decrease
• Review the difference between etCO₂ and PaCO₂
• A brief discussion of the different capnography technologies
• Monitoring in different hospital environments
• A discussion on nursing and collaborative interventions

A Guide to Monitoring etCO₂ During Opioid Delivery

• For Nurses ^*Click here
• For Respiratory Care ^*Click Here

During the past few years, organizations such as the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) and the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) have indicated a need to increase patient safety for patients receiving opioids by monitoring ventilation. Although pulse oximetry is known to monitor oxygenation it does not deliver information on the adequacy of ventilation. Capnography has been determined to be the fastest indicator of ventilatory depression. This lecture describes ventilation monitoring using capnography to detect hypoventilation in patients receiving PCA or neuraxial opioids in the postoperative period.

Capnography for the intubated and non-intubated patient in pre-hospital care

This education module has three parts: Basic definitions in capnography, Capnography for the intubated patient in pre-hospital care and Capnography for the non-intubated patient in pre-hospital care.

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Utilizing Capnography During Non-Invasive Ventilation

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV), also known as Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV), provides ventilatory support to a patient through the upper airways using a mask or similar device.

The purpose of this educational module is to provide an overview of capnography monitoring with usage on NIV patients in various care areas. This activity includes:

• Overview of non-invasive ventilation
• Description of the goals of NIV
• Review of indications for NIV
• Brief description of results of current studies that show ease of use, comfort, reliability, and accuracy of capnography during NIV
• Answers to frequently asked questions regarding monitoring ventilation during NIV and CPAP

RNs will receive CE credits for taking this course. Click here

Buttonology for the handheld monitors

This module shows how to use the Microstream handheld capnography monitors: Microcap and Microcap Plus.

Microcap monitor Click here

Microcap Plus Click here

Buttonology for the Capnostream bedside monitor

This module shows how to use the Capnostream: A Microstream bedside capnography monitor.

Capnostream (with Nellcor pulse oximetry)

Capnostream (with Masimo pulse oximetry)

^*For Nurses: This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours for Nurses. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Continuing Education Provider License #15402. Oridion Capnography Inc., 160 Gould Street, Suite 205, Needham, MA 02494.

^*For Respiratory Care: This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.0 contact hours for Continuing Respiratory Care Education.(CRCE) credit by the American Association for Respiratory Care. 9425 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 100 Irving, TX 75063.

If you have any questions with regard to these courses, please email education@oridion.com