Changing patterns in anesthetic fresh gas flow rates over 5 years in a teaching hospital

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1487-1490

  Kennedy, R Ross ^a   French, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC GAS; DESFLURANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; SEVOFLURANE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FLOW RATE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; INHALATION ANESTHESIA; INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW ZEALAND; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

ANESTHESIA DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; ANESTHESIA, CLOSED-CIRCUIT; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; COST SAVINGS; DRUG COSTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 42449156348     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31816841c0     Document Type: Article

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