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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-10-24
pubmed:abstractText
In June 2003, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) recommended: "As a general policy, use air or FiO2 at < or =30% for open delivery (consistent with patient needs)" to prevent surgical fires. One way to interpret JCAHO's recommendation is that 100% O2 should not be indiscriminately used, and anesthesia providers should have the ability, consistent with patient needs and their clinical judgment, to deliver sub-100% O2 with nasal cannulae. An auxiliary O2 flowmeter has a barbed outlet connector that offers a convenient means to connect a cannula to an anesthesia machine and is routinely used for open delivery of 100% O2. The auxiliary O2 flowmeter provides only 100% O2 and thus does not allow titration of the O2 concentration to patient needs and may increase the risk of surgical fires. This report clarifies the JCAHO recommendation and describes different means of addressing it that are based primarily on using the anesthesia machine to blend a sub-100% O2 gas mixture and delivering it via a nasal cannula. The options presented depend on the model and manufacturer of the anesthesia machine and allow delivery via nasal cannula of O2 concentrations that range from 21% to 100%.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0003-2999
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
101
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1407-12
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-10-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Reducing the incidence of surgical fires: supplying nasal cannulae with sub-100% O2 gas mixtures from anesthesia machines.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anesthesiology, PO Box 100254, Gainesville, FL 32610-0254, USA. slampotang@anest.ufl.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article