Comparison of pulse oximetry and earlobe blood gas with CO-oximetry in children with sickle cell disease: a retrospective review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the agreement between pulse oximetry (SpO₂) and oxygen saturation (SaO₂) measured by CO-oximetry on arterialised earlobe blood gas (EBG) in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD).

Design and setting

We retrospectively reviewed 39 simultaneous and paired SaO₂ EBG and SpO₂ measurements from 33 ambulatory patients with SCD (32 subjects with Haemoglobin SS and one with Haemoglobin Sß⁺, 52% male, mean±SD age 11.0±3.6, age range 5-18). Measurements were performed between 2012 and 2015 when participants were asymptomatic. Hypoxaemia was defined as SaO₂ ≤93%. A Bland-Altman analysis was performed to assess the accuracy of SpO₂ as compared with EBG SaO₂.<

SUBMITTER: Arigliani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7299039 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature