Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 107-110, March 2007

Anaesthetic machines

Jamie Peyton, MRCP, is Specialist Registrar on the Bristol rotation. He qualified from the University of Bristol, and trained in general medicine and critical care in Swansea before becoming an anaesthetist

Robin Cooper, MBBS, FRCA, is a consultant anaesthetist at Gloucester Royal Hospital. He trained on the Bristol rotation and has a special interest in paediatric anaesthesia

Abstract 

The principles underlying the safe delivery of oxygen and anaesthetic vapours have changed little during the past century. This article describes the basic mechanisms that have guided the development of modern anaesthetic machines into safe, reliable devices that are used every day throughout the world.

Keywords: back bar, common gas outlet, gas cylinders, pin-index system, pressure regulators

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PII: S1472-0299(06)00462-0

doi:10.1016/j.mpaic.2006.12.015

Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 107-110, March 2007

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