Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen Based Anesthesia

Herscher, Elliot S.; Yeakel, Allen E.

doi:10.1097/00132586-197810000-00016

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“…If the preconditions detailed in the previous section are assumed, the annual financial savings resulting from reduced gas and anaesthetic consumption in Germany alone would total more than DM 50 million (about f20 million or US$37 million) if low-flow anaesthetic techniques were performed. This figure corresponds quite well with the annual sum of US$ 80 million which has been calculated to be the cost of excess gas vented uselessly in the USA [31].…”

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Low‐flow anaesthesia

Baum

Aitkenhead

1995

Anaesthesia

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SummaryAlthough many anaesthesia machines are equipped with circle rebreathing systems, inhalational anaesthesia remains frequently performed using relatively high fresh-gasflows. The major advantages of rebreathing techniques can be achievedonly ifthe fresh-gas flow is reduced to I Imin-' or less. Although there are potential risks associated with low-flow anaesthesia, modern anaesthesia machines meet all the technical requirements for the safe use of low-flow techniques if they are used in conjunction with equipment for monitoring inhaled and exhaled gas concentrations; these monitors are already increasingly available and, in the near future, are likely to become an obligatory safety standard in many countries. For both economic and ecological reasons, the use of new inhalational anaesthetics, with low tissue solubility and low anaesthetic potency, can be justified only i f the eficiency of administration is optimised by using low-flow anaesthetic techniques.

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Section: Cost Savingssupporting

confidence: 84%