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Encyclopedia > Anesthetic vaporizer

An anaesthetic vaporiser is a device generally attached to an anaesthetic machine which delivers a given concentration of a volatile anaesthetic agent.


The design of these devices takes account of varying:

  1. ambient temperature
  2. fresh gas flow
  3. agent vapor pressure

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Physiologic Effects of Anesthesic and Analgesic Agents (11447 words)
Other attributes of anesthetics, those drugs which induce the anesthetic state, can be classed as alternative pharmacologic properties and not components of the anesthetic state.
An alternative approach to understanding the anesthetic state is that proposed by Prys-Roberts wherein the response of the patient to noxious stimuli and the alteration of this response by drugs becomes the focus of consideration.
Ester-linked local anesthetics are readily hydrolyzed in the blood by plasma cholinesterases whereas amides undergo hepatic metabolism.
Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools (10419 words)
It should be called "The Cannabis Revolution." Three very important things have happened in the marijuana world in the last decade or so: vaporizers, home-made hash, and sophisticated marijuana cookery.
VAPORIZERS refer to vaporizing the cannabinoids (the active ingredient) in the plant at a much lower temperature than smoking, without combusting the leaf.
A vaporizer that is simple and that I recommend is the Eterra Tulip.
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