Episode 1: Properties and laws of volatile anesthetics
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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What Is Vapor Pressure?
The brain is able to better absorb and retain information when you are active. The vapor pressure of nitrous oxide is 38,000 compared to the next highest of desfluorine is 669. If you accidentally filled a sea-vofloring vaporizer with isofloring, what would happen? A variable bypass vaporizer will direct more or less of the fresh gas flow that is coming in one side over a pool of anesthetic that is liquid.
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