Butler P J, Munro H M, Kenny M B
Section of Pediatric Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109, USA.
Br J Anaesth. 1996 Sep;77(3):333-4. doi: 10.1093/bja/77.3.333.
We performed preoxygenation on 25 patients, aged 1-12 yr. End-tidal oxygen sampling was used to find the duration of preoxygenation required to reach an end-tidal oxygen fraction of 0.9. All children reached this end-point within 80 s, which was markedly more rapid than that observed in adult subjects. The clinical applications of this form of monitoring in children are discussed.