Second gas effect
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second-gas-effect-168-15808807
title:
Second gas effect
text:
During induction of general anesthesia, when a large volume of a gas is taken up from alveoli into pulmonary capillary blood, the concentration of gases remaining in the alveoli is increased. This results in effects known as the second gas effect and the "concentration effect". These effects occur because of the contraction of alveolar volume associated with the uptake of the nitrous oxide. Previous explanations by Edmond I. Eger and Robert K. Stoelting have appealed to an extra-inspired tidal v
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description:
Effect occurring during general anesthesia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_gas_effect
date created:
2007-08-29T09:19:29Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T01:18:57Z
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