Reducing the incidence of surgical fires: Supplying nasal cannulae with sub-100% O2 gas mixtures from anesthesia machines

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1407-1412

  Lampotang, Samsun ^a,b,c   Gravenstein, Nikolaus ^a   Paulus, David A ^a,b   Gravenstein, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AIR; ALARM MONITOR; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CANNULA; FIRE; FIRE PROTECTION; FLOWMETER; GAS; NOSE; OPERATING ROOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 27444447532     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000180215.50589.02     Document Type: Article

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