SO2 from RapidPoints used to calculate SV02
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Do any of you have this happen in your POC areas? Below is the process.
So our process for obtaining Svo2 readings from our monitor is to:
So our process for obtaining Svo2 readings from our monitor is to:
- Draw blood from a swan-ganz catheter in the pulmonary artery to obtain blood that (in theory) should be the least oxygenated blood in the body.
- Respiratory therapy then runs a blood gas off this blood called a "mixed venous" gas.
- The nurse takes the number off the gas So2 or o2 sat (depending on if the gas is run with out without co-ox) and enters it into the continuous cardiac monitor with the hematocrit obtained from the most recent either lab or istat.
- The monitor gives a continuous svo2 reading.
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