Anesthesia equipment
This section aims to help you understand, in a simplified way, the physics principles used in medical equipment. Please click on the topics below:
- Pulse oximeter
- Endotracheal tubes
- Vaporisers
- Ultrasound basics
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging basics
- Electricity basics
- Electrical safety
- Defibrillators
- Capnography
- Circle breathing system
- International System of Units
Simple anaesthesia safety ideas
- Rapid Anaesthesia Scan: A quick way of monitoring your anesthetised patient
- BE WISE: A simple daily method of refreshing how to manage anaesthetic emergencies
Other interesting anaesthesia topics
- Most famous CO2 absorber in the world: The story of Apollo 13
- Amazing experimental laryngeal masks: The history of the LMA
- Ancient equipment used to cause pain (yes, it is weird)
- Interesting historical anaesthesia equipment
- Leonardo da Vinci invented breathing systems 500 years ago!
- Short history of laughing gas & ether
Funny stuff
- Laughing gas (huge collection of jokes)
- Difference between surgeons, physicians and anaesthetists
- Using drones to give anaesthesia staff coffee breaks
- “WHERE” checklist (something you should do before the WHO checklist)
- Obstetrician distress levels
- The cheapest way to assess day surgery patients
- Labour pain relief method (that men will hate)
- Drug removal mystery
- Which drug is darker? (illusion)
- Crazy but true inventions
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