Carbon dioxide absorber as a cause of high airway pressures

Levick A Bagdasarian; Nitin K Shah; Mehrdad K Sharif

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.06.018

Carbon dioxide absorber as a cause of high airway pressures

J Clin Anesth. 2008 Feb;20(1):48-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.06.018.

Authors

Levick A Bagdasarian¹, Nitin K Shah, Mehrdad K Sharif

Affiliation

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, UCI Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 18346610
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2007.06.018

Abstract

We investigate an incident in which a carbon dioxide absorber caused difficulty with ventilation. The problem as it developed throughout the anesthetic, and clues that led to the determination that the carbon dioxide canister was the problem, is discussed.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Absorption
Airway Resistance*
Anesthesia, Closed-Circuit / instrumentation*
Carbon Dioxide*
Equipment Failure
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Respiration, Artificial*

Substances

Carbon Dioxide