rebreather

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re·breath·er

 (rē-brē′thər)
n.
A usually portable, lightweight, vestlike breathing apparatus that recycles oxygen from exhaled air, absorbs exhaled carbon dioxide, and has a small container providing fresh air, used by scuba divers and astronauts, as well as rescue workers in environments where the air is thought to be toxic.
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The image, taken shortly after the man arrived at hospital with theghastly injury,shows the shirtless and tattooed 47-year-old with a mask and breathing bag before he was rushed into surgery.
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Patient was given sleeping dose of Propofol 30 mg and mask ventilation was evaluated by gently squeezing breathing bag. Ventilation was adequate though slightly difficult.
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Morch devised an electrically driven piston-pump which was inserted into the closed circuit in place of the breathing bag. In the United States, Frederick Mautz, a cardiac surgeon, modified a Heidbrink anaesthetic machine to provide rhythmic compression of the rebreathing bag: this device was successfully used for resuscitation of patients and for cardiothoracic surgery (8).
The first anaesthetic ventilators
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It was noticed early that the breathing bag tended to collapse.
A design fault of the Drager Cato anaesthesia workstation
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