title: Oxygen analyzers in anaesthesia: performance in a simulated clinical environment.
abstract: Nine commercial oxygen analyzers were tested in a laboratory model stimulating clinical anaesthesia conditions. Fifteen test situations were used in order to study the effects of nitrous oxide, humidity, positive end-expiratory pressure, halothane, enflurane and isoflurane. Errors exceeding 8 vol% were not uncommon, the dominating source of error being humidity. Analyzers with efficient dehumidification of gases before analysis performed better than analyzers without this property.
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D001322:Autoanalysis / Q000295:instrumentation; D006813:Humidity; D010100:Oxygen / Q000032:analysis*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen