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I N H A L A T I O N
A G E N T S
LIGHTER TOUCH Low-flow anesthesia is appropriate
for any patient receiving potent inhalational agents.
Low-Flow Anesthesia
For Quicker Recoveries
Reducing gas delivery by
500ml per minute also boosts
the bottom line.
Clifford Gevirtz, MD, MPH | New York, N.Y.
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ow-flow anesthesia is a great
Why go low?
In addition to faster discharges, there
are 2 other key benefits to using lower
flows of anesthesia:
• Cost control. When you use 2L per
way to speed patient discharges,
minute of sevoflurane or desflurane, it
save money for your facility and
costs $12 per hour. If your anesthesia
do right by the environment. Let's
providers like to run higher flows (and
examine how low flow can benefit you
they're out there), you're looking at
and your patients, and the keys to
more than $20 an hour. With a limited
beginning a successful program.
number of inhalational gas suppliers,
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