Oxygen analyzers in anaesthesia: performance in a simulated clinical environment
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
- Vol. 30 (8) , 656-659
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-6576.1986.tb02495.x
Abstract
Nine commercial oxygen analyzers were tested in a laboratory model simulating clinical anesthesia conditions. Fifteen test situations were used in order to study the effects of nitrous oxide, humidity, positive end-expiratory pressure, halothane, enflurane and isoflurane. Errors exceeding 8 vol% were not uncommon, the dominating source of error being humidity. Analyzers with efficient dehumidification of gases before analysis performed better than analyzers without this property.Keywords
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