Rebreather or Anesthesia Machine
OK, here’s a fun project that combines two things that I’m VERY interested in - scuba diving and surgery.
Some of you may know that I dive a rebreather, which is different from the standard scuba gear where you breath gas out of a tank and then exhale it into the water as bubbles. A rebreather basically just circulates one breath again and again, adding oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. There is a long boring story about why I like my rebreather so much, but I’m not going to post that here...
I have always been intrigued by the fact that rebreathers and anesthesia machines are so similar. There are obviously some major differences. For example, it is NOT a good idea to have a drug port for adding anesthetic gasses on your rebreather. Also, in surgery, the patient is never in charge of running the anesthesia machine. But I still thought that the parallels were interesting enough that I made a little instagram video about it. Here is the vertical video version, I also have a horizontal version of the same project.
Enjoy!
Some of you may know that I dive a rebreather, which is different from the standard scuba gear where you breath gas out of a tank and then exhale it into the water as bubbles. A rebreather basically just circulates one breath again and again, adding oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. There is a long boring story about why I like my rebreather so much, but I’m not going to post that here...
I have always been intrigued by the fact that rebreathers and anesthesia machines are so similar. There are obviously some major differences. For example, it is NOT a good idea to have a drug port for adding anesthetic gasses on your rebreather. Also, in surgery, the patient is never in charge of running the anesthesia machine. But I still thought that the parallels were interesting enough that I made a little instagram video about it. Here is the vertical video version, I also have a horizontal version of the same project.
Enjoy!
OK, here’s a fun project that combines two things that I’m VERY interested in - scuba diving and surgery.
Some of you may know that I dive a rebreather, which is different from the standard scuba gear where you breath gas out of a tank and then exhale it into the water as bubbles. A rebreather basically just circulates one breath again and again, adding oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. There is a long boring story about why I like my rebreather so much, but I’m not going to post that here...
I have always been intrigued by the fact that rebreathers and anesthesia machines are so similar. There are obviously some major differences. For example, it is NOT a good idea to have a drug port for adding anesthetic gasses on your rebreather. Also, in surgery, the patient is never in charge of running the anesthesia machine. But I still thought that the parallels were interesting enough that I made a little video about it.
Enjoy!
Some of you may know that I dive a rebreather, which is different from the standard scuba gear where you breath gas out of a tank and then exhale it into the water as bubbles. A rebreather basically just circulates one breath again and again, adding oxygen and removing carbon dioxide. There is a long boring story about why I like my rebreather so much, but I’m not going to post that here...
I have always been intrigued by the fact that rebreathers and anesthesia machines are so similar. There are obviously some major differences. For example, it is NOT a good idea to have a drug port for adding anesthetic gasses on your rebreather. Also, in surgery, the patient is never in charge of running the anesthesia machine. But I still thought that the parallels were interesting enough that I made a little video about it.
Enjoy!
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