FRCA Notes

Measuring Medical Gases

  • Monitoring standards (in general)

  • Respiratory monitoring
    • Pulse oximetry
    • Co-oximeters
    • Blood gas analysis
    • pH measurement

  • Measurement of anaesthetic gases
    • Methods of measuring gases (in general)
    • Infrared spectroscopy
    • Other methods
    • Methods used in research
    • Carbon dioxide
      • Capnography
      • Methods for measurement inc. Severinghaus electrode
    • Oxygen
      • Methods for measurement inc. paramagnetic analysis
      • Polarographic (Clark) electrode
      • Galvanic (Hersch) fuel cell
  • Measurement of gas pressure
  • Measurement of gas flow
  • Measurement of gas volume