Veterinary anesthesia monitoring system
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- INTELLIVET ANESTHESIA EQUIP
- Publication Date
- 2011-12-08
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
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[0001] This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 015,412, filed Dec. 17, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,997,268, issued Nov. 16, 2011, which claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) of U.S. provisional patent application No. 60 / 530,689, filed Dec. 17, 2003, each hereby incorporated by reference herein.I. BACKGROUND
[0002] An anesthesia device which monitors the amount of anesthetic held for vaporization and the amount of anesthetic and carbon dioxide in the mixture of gases in the circular re-breathing system.
[0003] During veterinary or human surgical procedures, a conventional anesthesia device entrains an amount of anesthetic into a mixture of gases utilizing an anesthetic vaporizer. The anesthetic entrained in the mixture of gases can be delivered for inhalation by a patient in a circular re-breathing system. The depth of general anesthesia depends on the partial pressure (or gas fraction) exerted by the inhalation anesthetic (or inhalation agent) on the ...