GAS ANALYZER FOR RAPID ESTIMATION OF CYCLOPROPANE

Open Access

1 November 1958

journal article
research article
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Anesthesiology

Vol. 19 (6) , 757-761
https://doi.org/10.1097/00000542-195811000-00007

Abstract

Cyclopropane contained in exhaled gases is absorbed in 31[image] H2SO4. Et2O is also absorbed. A correction may be made for H2O vapor. N2O and vinyl ethers interfere; C2H4 does not. Reproducibility is approx. 1 vol. %.

Keywords

CYCLOPROPANE/ANESTHESIA AND ANALGESIA