Breath monitoring improves patient safety during endoscopy unit procedures in pilot project

By Mae Burke and Cheryl Ha A pilot project in the Therapeutic Endoscopy Unit at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto shows encouraging results for reducing respiratory complications in sedated patients by monitoring their breathing with capnography equipment during routine endoscopy procedures. The pilot, carried out within the Endoscopy Unit in partnership with Medtronic Canada, determined the incidence of respiratory adverse events in the hospital’s endoscopy unit was higher than had previously been recognized and that capnography helped reduce these events by approximately 40%. “The ultimate goal for our project was to assess our current level of patient safety during procedural sedation, particularly patient safety events related to respiratory causes,” says Mae Burke, Clinical Leader Manager of the Therapeutic Endoscopy Unit. “We also wanted to see whether

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