ANAESTHETIC MACHINE

Grey River Argus, 19 July 1941, Page 4

ANAESTHETIC MACHINE

A Nuffield Benefaction LONDON, Julv 17. A new anaesthetic device, automatically making am-ailable the vapours from liquid anaesthetic, has been perfected at the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics at Oxford University. Lord Nuffield is providing to Fightin; Services one thousand of these machines. Them’ will cost £25,000 each. The machines mvork withe,ut the customary o-qs cylinders. The patient breathes through the- machine, in which an ingenious use is made of a chemica' substance, ensuring that t’-e vapour from the liquid anaesthet'c is inhaled in exacth' the desired concentrations. A particu’arlv valuable feature to the fighting services is the transport economy. For example, the machine converts one p’nt of bottled liquid ether into fee thousand times that volume of nascous other, which can be used for the anaesthetic.

(Rec. 1.20). LONDON. Julv 18. The medical journal, “The Lancet" gives an unprecedented amount of space to the new anaesthetic device, cabled earlier, which will be known as “The Oxford Vaporiser.”