Pulmonary Ventilation and Carbon Dioxide Levels During Anaesthesia

Scurr, C. F.

doi:10.1093/bja/28.9.422

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“…The suitability of the selected minute volume is checked once or twice a day by an estimation of mixed venous carbon dioxide tension. The method used is a modification of the rebreathing technique of sampling alveolar gas (Plesch, 1909;Scurr, 1956) and its subsequent analysis, using a portable Drager carbon dioxide analyzer (Taylor, 1964). It is in the large group of unconscious patients, especially those with pulmonary disease, that frequent estimations of the mixed venous carbon dioxide are required to judge the efficacy of the artificial ventilation.…”

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Experience With Fifty Patients Treated With Artificial Ventilation

Robbie¹,

Feldman²

1963

British Journal of Anaesthesia

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Experience gained during the treatment of fifty patients with respiratory failure is presented. The overall survival rate was 44 per cent, although some pathological conditions proved more amenable to treatment than others. The care of these patients involved the use of mechanical ventilators, and to obtain the best results the patients should be treated in a unit where there is a continuously high standard of nursing care and medical supervision. In such a unit problems which arise are more likely to be successfully overcomeproblems of humidification, of the care of the tracheostomy, of monitoring ventilation, of preventing cross infection, and of accurate instructions for the nursing staff. In a general hospital there is a wide range of medical and surgical disease which may result in respiratory insufficiency and be successfully treated.

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Experience With Fifty Patients Treated With Artificial Ventilation

Robbie¹,

Feldman²

1963

British Journal of Anaesthesia

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“…Again nitrous oxide interferes with many methods of gas analysis which may be used for CO 2 , but the principal technical difficulty during anaesthesia is sampling. Eastwood and Harbord (1955) have described the collection of alveolar samples from unconscious patients after large passive expirations and Scurr (1956) has used the equilibration method of Plesch (1909) during anaesthesia, thereby obtaining values approximating to the Pco a of mixed venous blood.…”

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