Hypoxia due to air in the oxygen pipeline
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 37 (6) , 683-687
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1982.tb01283.x
Abstract
Summary: A patient received an hypoxic anaesthetic gas mixture and made an uneventful recovery. The fault was traced to an air‐oxygen mixer valve in the Intensive Care Unit. An oxygen monitor in theatre would have detected the fault before the patient was anaesthetised.Keywords
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