The carbon dioxide absorption technique. No. 4.

Date:
[1944]
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Description

This film explains the principles of the carbon dioxide absorption technique and demonstrates the two methods in use: single-phase absorption and closed-circuit or two-phase absorption. Firstly the principle of absorption is illustrated using diagrams. Next the equipment is shown being prepared; a canister is shown. An anaesthetist is shown preparing a patient; nitrous oxide and ether are discharged into the breathing aparatus. The anaesthetist has to observe the patient's breathing bag carefully to monitor the patient's air supply. The methodology for using closed-circuit anaesthesia is more complex and requires the clinician to calibrate the machinery carefully; the advantage of this methodology is that a suitable level of anaesthesia can be maintained. Ends sudddenly; no credits.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [1944]

Physical description

1 film reel (16:30 mins): sd., b&w.; 16mm.

Notes

Part of the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
Duplicate film item; see also ICI004

Creator/production credits

Directed by Yvonne Fletcher, Photographed by A. E. Jeakins, Diagrams by Diagram Films Ltd. Produced by Realist Film Unit. Made with the co-operation of the Department of Anaesthetics, Westminister Hospital, London.

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