Is end tidal carbon dioxide as reliable as transcutaneous monitoring in ventilated postsurgical neonates?
In postoperative neonates, EtCO2 and TcCO2 demonstrated a clinically acceptable agreement with PaCO2.
Knot failure is decreased by increasing the number of throws for poliglecaprone 25 and polyglactin 910. However, there is no advantage to increasing the number of throws from 3 to 5 for silk.