Table 1

A 5-point Likert scale was used to determine the level of positive or negative feelings associated with the use of capnography and its perceived value, with higher scores representing more positive attitudes

Survey questions:MeanSD
Q1. How is your ability to carry out your duties affected by adding capnography monitoring to patient care?3.001.00
Q2. How do you feel patient safety is being affected by capnography monitoring?3.860.65
Q3. How many experiences have you had with patients who had escalations of care that might have been prevented using capnography?2.051.02
Q4. What effect do you think capnography monitoring has on patient satisfaction?2.381.16
Q5. What level of cooperation would you describe patients as having with wearing the capnography cannula?2.520.81
Q6. Which choice best describes your attitude towards the necessity of pulse oximetry monitoring compared with capnography?1.761.34
Q7. Please describe your style of patient communication: direct (telling patients protocols they will follow) or indirect (suggestion that they follow certain protocols).3.760.89
Q8. If capnography monitoring were removed today, do you think patient safety would be more at risk?2.570.51
Q9. Capnography provides important feedback DURING surgery.3.901.00
Q10. Capnography provides important feedback up to 1 hour postsurgery.3.810.98
Q11. Capnography provides important feedback up to 8 hours postsurgery.3.861.01
Q12. Capnography provides important feedback up to 24 hours postsurgery.3.240.94
Q13. Capnography provides important feedback in the presence of certain comorbidities.3.861.01
Q14. Capnography provides important clinical data in the unstable patient.4.331.02
Q15. What level of urgency do you currently assign to an alarm for apnoea?3.571.57
Q16. What level of urgency do you currently assign to an alarm for a respiratory rate violation?3.381.20
Q17. What level of urgency do you currently assign to an alarm for a heart rate violation?3.570.93
Q18. What level of urgency do you currently assign to an alarm for a oxygen saturation (SpO2) violation?3.671.32