TY - JOUR
AU1 - Swar, B. B.
AB - 538 CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA the excess weight dragging on the patient's mask or the care of particularly ill patients. Under the circum- endotracheal tube. I use a flow rate of 5 L-min ~ for stances, as a physician, one is obliged to consider preoxygenation and on termination of the anaesthetic. To alternatives and it is my firm belief that oxygen concentra diminish the diluting effect &the added flow of oxygen to tors of good design are the answer. the inspired concentration of halothane, I reduce the We have recently assessed the features of a Kinox-2 oxygen flow to 1 L.min -l during maintenance of anaes- concentrator at the Military Hospital in Kathmandu.2 The thesia. This conserves our supply of halothane, also a maximum oxygen concentration at different flows was costly item in this part of the world. studied using a Critikon Polarographic Oxygen Analyser The Haloxair ~ has an oxygen flowmeter calibrated and BOC Oxygen Flow Meters. The concentration from 1-3 L.min -I to which a cylinder of compressed gas readings were similar to the values predicted up to the can be connected. I keep a cylinder attached, in case of recommended maximum flow. At higher flows there 
TI - Oxygen concentrators
JF - Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d anesthésie
DO - 10.1007/bf03014367
DA - 1987-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/oxygen-concentrators-lUuSMcCcHh
SP - 538
EP - 539
VL - 34
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -