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Tutorial 171

VAPOURISATION AND VAPOURISERS ANAESTHESIA TUTORIAL OF THE WEEK 171

Morgan Sherwood
Specialist Registrar, Salford Royal Hospital Foundation Trust

Oliver Pratt
Consultant Anaesthetist, Salford Royal Hospital Foundation Trust

Correspondence: oliver.pratt@srft.nhs.uk

22nd FEBRUARY 2010

Abstract

The use of volatile anaesthetic drugs requires specialised equipment to deliver a known steady partial pressure of drug to the patient. A number of physical factors potentially introduce inaccuracy in to this process, and vapourisers have been developed with mechanisms to compensate for this inaccuracy.

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