Abstract
The degree of dyspnea is usually evaluated by physical findings and also by laboratory examinations such as arterial blood gas analysis.
Physical findings, however, are not necessarily responsible enough to indicate an exact situation of dyspnea, while arterial blood gas analysis shows only a point value because of clinical difficulty in frequent sampling in infant.
In order to overcome these problems, a transcutaneous blood gas sensor has recently been utilized for this purpose, and we applied this device to monitor the degree of dyspnea in four children.
In this report, several critical application are discussed
