HAZARDS IN ANAESTHETIC EQUIPMENT

[Hazards of electrical equipment].

Checking anaesthetic equipment: AAGBI 2012 guidelines.

The modern anaesthetic machine is a complex device. It has evolved from a ‘trolley’ that did little more than deliver gas to the patient, into a ‘workstation’ with multiple delivery modalities, multiple safety features and multiple integrated monitoring devices. In addition, we have at our disposal many more pieces of complex equipment, separate from the anaesthesia workstation itself, to help ...

Anaesthetic monitoring equipment for small animals

In 1990, Clarke and Hall carried out a survey of anaesthetic mortality in small animal practice. Their findings suggested that approximately 1 in 679 healthy dogs and cats died as a result of anaesthesia, while the figure increased to 1 in 31 for sick patients. More recently, the preliminary results of a Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Small Animal Fatalities (CEPSAF) indicated that the...

Anaesthetic equipment for a developing country.

A development aid project to Malawi is described. This involved the development of a suitable anaesthetic machine for use in under-developed countries and the selection of a suitable oxygen concentrator to provide it with air and oxygen. All government hospitals were provided with anaesthetic equipment and personnel were trained to keep it regularly serviced. Follow up testing of reliability wa...

An intervention to reduce playground equipment hazards.

OBJECTIVES A community intervention trial was carried out to evaluate the relative effectiveness of two methods of reducing playground hazards in schools. The study hypotheses were: (1) a health promotion programme addressing barriers to implementing the New Zealand Playground Safety Standard will reduce playground hazards and (2) the intervention programme will be more successful than providin...