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Anaesthetic machine, the Glossary

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Anesthetic equipment
Breathing apparatus

Adjustable pressure-limiting valve

An adjustable pressure-limiting valve (commonly abbreviated to APL valve, and also referred to as an expiratory valve, relief valve or spill valve) is a type of flow control valve used in anaesthesiology as part of a breathing system. Anaesthetic machine and adjustable pressure-limiting valve are anesthetic equipment.

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Anaesthetic machine

An anaesthetic machine (British English) or anesthesia machine (American English) is a medical device used to generate and mix a fresh gas flow of medical gases and inhalational anaesthetic agents for the purpose of inducing and maintaining anaesthesia. Anaesthetic machine and anaesthetic machine are anesthetic equipment, breathing apparatus, Dosage forms, Drug delivery devices and machines.

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Anesthesia

Anesthesia or anaesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical or veterinary purposes.

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Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology or anaesthesiology is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery.

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Atmospheric pressure

Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.

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A bimetallic strip or bimetal strip is a strip that consists of two strips of different metals which expand at different rates as they are heated.

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BOC (company)

BOC Limited is a British based multinational, industrial gas company.

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Breathing circuit

A breathing circuit is those parts of a breathing apparatus (or breathing system), which direct the flow of supplied breathing gas to, and sometimes from, the user. Anaesthetic machine and breathing circuit are anesthetic equipment.

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British English

British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.

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Calibration

In measurement technology and metrology, calibration is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy.

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Capnography

Capnography is the monitoring of the concentration or partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the respiratory gases.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Chloroform

Chloroform, or trichloromethane (often abbreviated as TCM), is an organochloride with the formula and a common solvent.

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Concentration

In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture.

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Curt Schimmelbusch

Curt Theodor Schimmelbusch (16 November 1860 – 2 August 1895) was a German physician and pathologist who invented the Schimmelbusch mask, for the safe delivery of anaesthetics to surgical patients.

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Cyclopropane

Cyclopropane is the cycloalkane with the molecular formula (CH2)3, consisting of three methylene groups (CH2) linked to each other to form a triangular ring.

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Defence Medical Services

The Defence Medical Services (DMS) is an umbrella organisation within the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom.

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Dentist

A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry, the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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Desflurane

Desflurane (1,2,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether) is a highly fluorinated methyl ethyl ether used for maintenance of general anesthesia.

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Diethyl ether

Diethyl ether, or simply ether, is an organic compound with the chemical formula, sometimes abbreviated as.

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Electric battery

An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices.

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Electrocardiography

Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles.

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Evaporation

Evaporation is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase.

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Flow measurement

Flow measurement is the quantification of bulk fluid movement.

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Gas

Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter.

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Gas cylinder

A gas cylinder is a pressure vessel for storage and containment of gases at above atmospheric pressure. Anaesthetic machine and gas cylinder are anesthetic equipment.

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Getinge

Getinge is a locality situated in Halmstad Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 1,843 inhabitants in 2010.

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Getinge Group

Getinge is a global medical technology company, founded in Sweden in 1904.

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Halothane

Halothane, sold under the brand name Fluothane among others, is a general anaesthetic.

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Heart rate

Heart rate is the frequency of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (beats per minute, or bpm).

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Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle

Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle OBE (2 April 1875 – 15 October 1941) was a pioneering anaesthetist best remembered for the development of early anaesthetic machines.

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Hypoxia (medicine)

Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.

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Inhalational anesthetic

An inhalational anesthetic is a chemical compound possessing general anesthetic properties that is delivered via inhalation.

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Isoflurane

Isoflurane, sold under the brand name Forane among others, is a general anesthetic.

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John Snow

John Snow (15 March 1813 – 16 June 1858) was an English physician and a leader in the development of anaesthesia and medical hygiene.

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Joseph Thomas Clover

Joseph Thomas Clover (born 28 February 1825; baptised 7 May 1825 – 27 September 1882) was an English doctor and innovator of anaesthesia.

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Liquid

A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a nearly constant volume independent of pressure.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Mains electricity

Mains electricity or utility power, grid power, domestic power, and wall power, or, in some parts of Canada, hydro, is a general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply.

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Maquet

Maquet GmbH (self-styled as MAQUET) is a multinational German medical technology manufacturing company based in Rastatt with focus on equipment for surgical workplaces, anesthesia systems, workstations for intensive care and cardiovascular devices.

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Medical device

A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.

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Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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Minute ventilation

Minute ventilation (or respiratory minute volume or minute volume) is the volume of gas inhaled (inhaled minute volume) or exhaled (exhaled minute volume) from a person's lungs per minute.

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Monitoring (medicine)

In medicine, monitoring is the observation of a disease, condition or one or several medical parameters over time.

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Nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen oxide or dinitrogen monoxide), commonly known as laughing gas, nitrous, nitro, or nos, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula.

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Operating temperature

An operating temperature is the allowable temperature range of the local ambient environment at which an electrical or mechanical device operates.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Oxygen saturation (medicine)

Oxygen saturation is the fraction of oxygen-saturated haemoglobin relative to total haemoglobin (unsaturated + saturated) in the blood.

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Partial pressure

In a mixture of gases, each constituent gas has a partial pressure which is the notional pressure of that constituent gas as if it alone occupied the entire volume of the original mixture at the same temperature.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Phase transition

In physics, chemistry, and other related fields like biology, a phase transition (or phase change) is the physical process of transition between one state of a medium and another.

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Physical change

Physical changes are changes affecting the form of a chemical substance, but not its chemical composition.

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Pin Index Safety System

The Pin Index Safety System (PISS) is a means of connecting high pressure cylinders containing medical gases to a regulator or other utilization equipment. Anaesthetic machine and Pin Index Safety System are anesthetic equipment.

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Positive pressure

Positive pressure is a pressure within a system that is greater than the environment that surrounds that system.

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Pressure

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.

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Rebreather

A rebreather is a breathing apparatus that absorbs the carbon dioxide of a user's exhaled breath to permit the rebreathing (recycling) of the substantially unused oxygen content, and unused inert content when present, of each breath.

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Richard von Foregger

Richard von Foregger (27 June 1872 – 18 January 1960) was an Austrian-American chemist, manufacturer and Olympic swimmer.

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Rotameter

A rotameter is a device that measures the volumetric flow rate of fluid in a closed tube.

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Schrader valve

The Schrader valve (also called American valve) is a type of pneumatic tire valve used on virtually every motor vehicle in the world today.

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Soda lime

Soda lime, a mixture of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and calcium oxide (CaO), is used in granular form within recirculating breathing environments like general anesthesia and its breathing circuit, submarines, rebreathers, and hyperbaric chambers and underwater habitats. Anaesthetic machine and soda lime are anesthetic equipment.

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Sphygmomanometer

A sphygmomanometer, also known as a blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or aneroid manometer to measure the pressure.

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St Bartholomew's Hospital

St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London.

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Suction (medicine)

In medicine, devices are sometimes necessary to create suction.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity that quantitatively expresses the attribute of hotness or coldness.

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Transducer

A transducer is a device that converts energy from one form to another.

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Trichloroethylene

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is a halocarbon with the formula C2HCl3, commonly used as an industrial degreasing solvent.

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Unconsciousness

Unconsciousness is a state in which a living individual exhibits a complete, or near-complete, inability to maintain an awareness of self and environment or to respond to any human or environmental stimulus.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.

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Vapor pressure

Vapor pressure or equilibrium vapor pressure is the pressure exerted by a vapor in thermodynamic equilibrium with its condensed phases (solid or liquid) at a given temperature in a closed system.

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Vaporization

Vaporization (or vaporisation) of an element or compound is a phase transition from the liquid phase to vapor.

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Ventilator

A ventilator is a type of breathing apparatus, a class of medical technology that provides mechanical ventilation by moving breathable air into and out of the lungs, to deliver breaths to a patient who is physically unable to breathe, or breathing insufficiently.

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Veterinary anesthesia

Veterinary anesthesia is a specialization in the veterinary medicine field dedicated to the proper administration of anesthetic agents to non-human animals to control their consciousness during procedures.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaesthetic_machine

Also known as Anaesthesia machine, Anaesthetic apparatus, Anaesthetic vaporiser, Anaesthetic vaporizer, Anesthesia machine, Anesthetic machine, Anesthetic vaporizer, Bain's circuit, Boyle's apparatus, Boyle's machine, Continuous-flow anaesthetic machine.

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Anaesthetic machine, the Glossary

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Anesthetic equipment

Breathing apparatus

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