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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2002, Vol. 89, No. 5 797-798
© 2002 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Correspondence

The output of two sevoflurane vaporizers in the presence of helium

N. A. McIlree, S. Sireau and S. Jaggar

London, UK

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Editor—We read with interest the short communication by Carvalho and Sanders1 that highlights the issue of output from vaporizers for new inhalational anaesthetic agents.

A variation in performance is unsurprising when using a gas other than that for which the vaporizer has been specifically calibrated. However, a large variation in performance when using the carrier for which the vaporizer is specifically calibrated is unexpected.

We recently experienced a problem with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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