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The Anesthesia Machine as a Monitor

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Abstract

The anesthesia machine serves as a therapeutic device that delivers gases and vapors and provides for spontaneous and mechanical ventilation. To do so it monitors its own function since much of what it does requires internal feedback control. In addition, the anesthesia machine monitors some of the physiological processes it controls or interacts with. The information it shows to the anesthesia care provider through numeric data and graphic trends makes it easier to predict, detect, and treat patient changes.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    James H. Philip ME (E.), MD

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  1. Departments of Anesthesiology, Surgery, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

    Jesse M. Ehrenfeld

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

    Maxime Cannesson

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Philip, J.H. (2014). The Anesthesia Machine as a Monitor. In: Ehrenfeld, J., Cannesson, M. (eds) Monitoring Technologies in Acute Care Environments. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8557-5_22

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