As Your Specialist in Acute Care we understand how perioperative lung protective ventilation during general anaesthesia can reduce the incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC). PPC are common complications after general anaesthesia.
Read on and find out how low-flow anaesthesia can positively influence complication rates.
Why is low-flow anaesthesia better for pulmonary function than the high-flow technique?
The upper respiratory tract plays an important role in acclimatizing the inhaled gas as the respiratory epithelium of the lower respiratory tract changes towards the terminal bronchioles, successively decreasing the capability to humidify and warm the inspired gas. During anaesthesia, however, the upper respiratory tract is bypassed by endotracheal intubation or a laryngeal mask, leaving the lower respiratory tract potentially overcharged with the task of adequately acclimatizing the cold and dry gas applied during high flow anaesthesia. Mechanical ventilation with cold and dry gas can thus lead to damage of the lung parenchyma.
Whitepaper: Benefits of low-flow anaesthesia
How can your patients benefit from a technique that potentially minimises the risk for postoperative pulmonary complication? Learn more about the advantages of low-flow anaesthesia in our whitepaper!
Technology Insights: Low-Flow Anaesthesia
This paper will provide you with insights into the technical prerequisites for the safe operation of low-flow anaesthesia and supporting Dräger technology.
Infographic: Low-Flow Anaesthesia
Postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) have a profound negative impact on outcomes. Our infographic shows the positive effects of low-flow anaesthesia on PPCs.
Low-flow anaesthesia for lung protective ventilation
Various studies demonstrated, that protective ventilation approaches allow the reduction in incidence of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPC).
Clinical techniques for use with rebreathing systems
Wide-ranging clinical experience shows that low-flow anaesthesia is a safe and simple-to-perform technique and can be easily used in daily clinical routine. ”The safety and technical capability of today’s anaesthesia machines make low-flow, minimal-flow and metabolic-flow anaesthesia the procedures of choice.” This is the conclusion of Bert Mierke (MD/PhD) and Christian Hoenemann (MD/PhD), passionate low-flow advocates and authors of the booklet on low- , minimal- and metabolic flow anaesthesia.
This booklet provides background information and practical advice for the safe use of these techniques.
Low- and minimal-flow-booklet: Clinical techniques for use with rebreathing systems
Schematic procedure of minimal-flow anaesthesia
How can you reduce costs in the OR?
The use of low-flow anaesthesia reduces consumption of volatile anaesthetic agents as well as nitrous oxide and oxygen. Apart from significant cost savings, the negative ecological effects of volatile anaesthetic agents can be reduced.
Learn how hospitals substantially reduced their agent consumption by using low-flow anaesthesia in these reference cases.
Significant Cost Savings for Anesthetic Gases: Lexington Case Study
Dräger anesthesia machines feature a platform that allows the anaesthesia team to adjust the flow rate of the anesthetic, and has provided us with a savings of over $100,000 in pharmaceutical costs in the first year.
Reference case Sunderland: More quality in patient care and significantly less cost
Although low- and minimal-flow anaesthesia offers many benefits, successful adoption has been hindered by a lack of simple-to-use methods to guide anaesthetists on the efficient usage of volatile gases. This is now set to change following an advancement in gas monitoring software, which measures the actual agent consumption versus uptake.
Errors in anaesthesia – whose fault is it anyway?
Lung protection in obese patients during general anaesthesia
Ventilation of the anaesthetised paediatric patient
Lung recruitment during general anaesthesia
Lung protection during general anaesthesia
Intraoperative spontaneous breathing
The Big Impact of Lung Protective Ventilation
—Get a deeper understanding of how to fit every patient’s lung ventilation needs and learn how you can improve patient outcomes whilst maximising hospital’s resources.
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