Arterial blood gas analysis in two different intra-hospital transport methods for postoperative cardiac surgery patients.

Objective: To evaluate the effects on blood gases by two methods of ventilation (with transport ventilation or self-inflating manual resuscitator) during intra-hospital transport of patients after cardiac surgery.

Methods: Observational, longitudinal, prospective, randomized study. Two samples of arterial blood were collected at the end of the surgery and another at the end of patient transport.