Open AccessIs Your Vaporizer Off?
Author(s) -
Thomas L. Cook,
Edmond I. Eger,
Robert S. Behl
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/00000539-197711000-00010
Subject(s) - medicine , vaporizer , diluent , kettle (birds) , anesthetic , anesthesia , nuclear chemistry , ecology , chemistry , pathology , biology
We found that both variable bypass (Tec-type) and measured flow (Kettle type) vaporizers that nominally are turned off may permit anesthetic to leak into the bypass or the diluent stream. The contamination ranges from 1 to 3,300 parts per million of halothane (0.0001 to 0.33 percent). It appears to result either from diffusion of agent from the liquid reservoir into the bypass or diluent stream or from a reservoir in the piping connecting vaporizer to the diluent stream.