Flowmeter Pre-Setting - Siare Morpheus ND User Manual

5.1.3 Flowmeter pre-setting

After calculation of Minute Volume needed by the patient basing physiologic and pathologic
conditions (obtained from the product of Tidal Volume x Respiratory Rate (Vti x RR)) ; determinate
the total flow of fresh gas to be introduced in the patient circuit basing on chosen dosage.
For more informations about Flowmeter use, see on chapter 3.7 .
WARNING !! Risk for Patient injury
The two gas (
The use of N
measure of 25% ( MIX-LIFE ).
Morpheus_ND
Air and N O or Xe
) cannot be used at the same time.
2
2
O ( or Xe ) gas, determines the automatic use of oxygen in the
•
Select the anaesthetic gas to be
combined with the oxygen (
or N O
).
2
•
Adjust the flow checking the
value displayed in the box
Fresh Gas
.
•
O
Adjust the flow by
2
•
Verify that the sum of the flows
read on electronic flowmeters
corresponds to the foreseen
value of Fresh Gases.
•
Adjust the concentration of
anaesthetic agent onto the
vaporiser.
Air
FiO
.
2
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