This episode explores how volatile anaesthetics behave and affect patients. Chiefly thinking about how the compartments in a breathing circuit and patient interplay to achieve depth / maintain anaesthetic depth and emerge from anesthesia.

Absolutely worth a listen to get your head around compartments and also starting thinking about blood gas and oil gas partition coefficients

Show notes @: https://gasgasgas.uk/compartmentalised-volatiles/

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All content is educational in nature and never intended to be acted upon.
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Whilst the body of medical knowledge is slowly shifting and expanding, there are often differing numerics and notions for these core concepts, as such, accuracy of the content is not guaranteed.
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