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.

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Courses for Continuing Education Credits:

• Capnography Monitoring: Understanding the Basics
• 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
• Utilizing Capnography During Non-Invasive Ventilation

Education Courses (no credits available):

• Buttonology for the handheld monitors
• Buttonology for the Capnostream bedside monitor

Capnography Monitoring: Understanding the Basics

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The purpose of this educational activity is to provide an overview of capnography monitoring. This activity includes a review of capnography, including key terms; description of the physiology surrounding its application; a discussion of normal end tidal CO2 values, as well as a review of normal and abnormal waveforms. The activity will

• Describe common capnography terms
• Describe capnography
• Summarize normal respiratory physiology
• Review the differences between oxygenation and ventilation
• Identify basic capnography waveforms

A Guide to Capnography during Procedural Sedation

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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

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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

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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.

Utilizing Capnography During Non-Invasive Ventilation

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The purpose of this educational activity is to provide an overview of capnography monitoring during noninvasive ventilation (NIV). This activity includes an overview of NIV, including the goals of and indications for NIV. It also contains results of current studies that show ease of use, comfort and reliability of capnography during NIV. The activity will

• Describe non-invasive ventilation (NIV)
• Explain the goals of NIV
• List of some indications for NIV
• Describe current studies that show ease of use, comfort and reliability of capnography during NIV

Capnography and the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care

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In 2010, the American Heart Association released new Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. The new guidelines now recommend waveform capnography for confirmation of ET tube placement, monitoring CPR quality, and return of spontaneous circulation.

This educational activity provides an overview of the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines and the recommendations for waveform capnography and some basic information on capnography.

• Define common capnography terms
• Summarize basic understanding of capnography
• Review normal respiratory physiology
• Review the 2010 AHA Guidelines for waveform capnography

Buttonology for the handheld monitors

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

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Buttonology for the Capnostream bedside monitor

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

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^*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

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