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J Clin Monit Comput
; 24(2): 169-72, 2010 Apr.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-20238153
ABSTRACT
End-tidal gas monitoring has become standard of care during inhaled general anaesthesia. We studied the performance of a new side stream gas monitor the ISA multi-gas monitor. The performance was studied at constant low flow of calibration gas and end-tidal anaesthetic measure was studied during routine day case anaesthesia. Pair wise readings of end-tidal halogenated anaesthetic concentration were recorded during low flow anaesthesia. Performance was found to be high; all calibration gas measures were within 0.1 vol% deviation. During routine anaesthesia mean bias was -0.036 vol% and 93 out of 97 pair-wise readings were within the agreement limits as compared to the reference Datex instrument.