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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 38, 859-865, Copyright © 1991 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

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Stability of the intraoperative arterial to end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure difference in children with congenital heart disease

VA Lazzell and FA Burrows
Department of Anaesthesia, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the stability of the arterial PCO2 (PaCO2) to end-tidal PCO2 (PETCO2) partial pressure difference (Pa-ETCO2) during surgery using PETCO2 monitoring, in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). Forty children with CHD were studied: ten children with no interchamber communication and normal pulmonary blood flow (PBF) (normal group); ten acyanotic children with increased PBF (acyanotic-shunting group); ten cyanotic children with mixing type lesions and normal or increased PBF (mixing group), and ten cyanotic children with right-to-left intracardiac shunts demonstrating decreased and variable PBF (cyanotic-shunting group). Simultaneous PaCO2 recordings and PETCO2 measurements were obtained for each patient during five intraoperative events: (1) control time, arterial line placement under anaesthesia; (2) time 1, patient preparation; (3) time 2, immediately after sternotomy; (4) time 3, after heparin administration; and (5) time 4, immediately after aortic cannulation. Initially, cyanotic children demonstrated a greater Pa-ETCO2 compared with acyanotic children (P less than 0.05). There was no difference in the Pa-ETCO2 over time in the control, acyanotic-shunting, or mixing groups. The Pa-ETCO2 in the children with cyanotic-shunting lesions at times 2 and 3 was greater (P less than 0.05) than at their control times. We conclude that the Pa-ETCO2 of children with acyanotic-shunting and mixing congenital heart lesions is stable intraoperatively, although patients with mixing congenital heart lesions may demonstrate large individual variations. In children with cyanotic-shunting congenital heart lesions, the Pa-ETCO2 is not stable. The PETCO2 cannot be used during surgery to estimate reliably the PaCO2 in children with cyanotic CHD.


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