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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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Autores principales: 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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Publicado: 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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