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The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption
BACKGROUND: In an era of medical cost containment, cost-effectiveness has become a major focus in healthcare. The effect of a new policy on the use of low fresh gas flow during maintenance of general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics was evaluated. METHODS: The numbers and duration of general ane...
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The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21390160 http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2011.60.2.75 |
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author | Ryu, Ho-Geol Lee, Ji-Hyun Lee, Kyung-Ku Gil, Nam-Su Kim, Chong Soo Sim, Sung-Eun Lee, Sang Chul Min, Seong-Won |
author_facet | Ryu, Ho-Geol Lee, Ji-Hyun Lee, Kyung-Ku Gil, Nam-Su Kim, Chong Soo Sim, Sung-Eun Lee, Sang Chul Min, Seong-Won |
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description | BACKGROUND: In an era of medical cost containment, cost-effectiveness has become a major focus in healthcare. The effect of a new policy on the use of low fresh gas flow during maintenance of general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics was evaluated. METHODS: The numbers and duration of general anesthesia cases using sevoflurane 5 weeks prior to and 15 weeks after policy implementation were retrieved from the electronic medical records database. The number of sevoflurane bottles consumed was also assessed. The anesthesia hours per bottle of sevoflurane were compared before and after policy implementation. RESULTS: The number of anesthesia hours performed per bottle of sevoflurane increased by 38.3%. The effect varied over time and tended to fade with time. CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of a low fresh gas flow rate policy effectively reduces the amount of sevoflurane consumed for the same duration of anesthesia. |
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spelling | pubmed-30498852011-03-09 The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption Ryu, Ho-Geol Lee, Ji-Hyun Lee, Kyung-Ku Gil, Nam-Su Kim, Chong Soo Sim, Sung-Eun Lee, Sang Chul Min, Seong-Won Korean J Anesthesiol Clinical Research Article BACKGROUND: In an era of medical cost containment, cost-effectiveness has become a major focus in healthcare. The effect of a new policy on the use of low fresh gas flow during maintenance of general anesthesia with volatile anesthetics was evaluated. METHODS: The numbers and duration of general anesthesia cases using sevoflurane 5 weeks prior to and 15 weeks after policy implementation were retrieved from the electronic medical records database. The number of sevoflurane bottles consumed was also assessed. The anesthesia hours per bottle of sevoflurane were compared before and after policy implementation. RESULTS: The number of anesthesia hours performed per bottle of sevoflurane increased by 38.3%. The effect varied over time and tended to fade with time. CONCLUSIONS: The implementation of a low fresh gas flow rate policy effectively reduces the amount of sevoflurane consumed for the same duration of anesthesia. The Korean Society of Anesthesiologists 2011-02 2011-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3049885/ /pubmed/21390160 http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2011.60.2.75 Text en Copyright © the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2011 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Research Article Ryu, Ho-Geol Lee, Ji-Hyun Lee, Kyung-Ku Gil, Nam-Su Kim, Chong Soo Sim, Sung-Eun Lee, Sang Chul Min, Seong-Won The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
title | The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
title_full | The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
title_fullStr | The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
title_short | The effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
title_sort | effect of low fresh gas flow rate on sevoflurane consumption |
topic | Clinical Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049885/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21390160 http://dx.doi.org/10.4097/kjae.2011.60.2.75 |
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