Introductionoflow-flowanesthesia.pptVIP

Introduction of low-flow anesthesia 麻醉科R2楊美惠 2004/11/08 Definition of low-flow Low-flow anesthesia can be defined as a technique which, using a rebreathing system, results in at least 50% of the exhaled air being returned to the lungs after CO2 absorption. Low-flow anaesthesia, Anaesthesia, 1995, Volume 50 supplement , pages 37-44 Via the observation that anaesthetic vapours are excreted unchanged with the expired air and serial experiments, John Snow concluded In 1850 that: “ It follows as a necessary consequence of this mode of excretion of a vapour that, if its exhalation by the breath