title: Automatic ventilation during bronchoscopy: experience with a Bird Mark 2 ventilator.
abstract: One hundred and fifty patients were ventilated artificially during bronchoscopy using a Bird Mark 2 ventilator with either oxygen or a nitrous oxide in oxygen mixture as the driving gas. Satisfactory conditions for the examination were achieved. There was no significant deterioration in PaO2 or PaCO2.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001784:Blood Gas Analysis; D001999:Bronchoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009609:Nitrous Oxide; D010100:Oxygen; D012122:Ventilators, Mechanical / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D009609:Nitrous Oxide; D010100:Oxygen