SYSTEM FOR CONNECTING A SUPPLY DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING FRESH ANESTHESIA GAS AND THE PATIENT AIRWAYS.

摘要

A general anesthesia rebreathing system comprised of a disposable portion easily coupled to and decoupled from a permanent portion. The disposable portion includes conventional breathing tubing for coupling a source of fresh gas, as from an anesthesia machine, to a patient and in addition an overflow tube for coupling the patient end of the system to an overflow (pop-off) valve, preferably mounted on the machine and constituting part of the permanent portion. The overflow tube entrance is located close to the patient end of the system and in communication with the tubing which conveys expired gas to a reservoir, such as a conventional breathing bag, mounted at the machine end. The arrangement assures that the patient's initially expired dead space gas is conveyed by the tubing to the reservoir with subsequently expired alveolar gas being exhausted through the overflow tube and pop-off valve.