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2024 29 Mar

  The patient lies still on the operating table, softly inhaling the anesthetic gases that keep her safely sedated during surgery. Then she breathes out, and the anesthesia that wasn’t metabolized by her body—roughly 95 percent of the gas flowing through the anesthesia machine—is exhaled, unused and unchanged. That gas is then vented through the...Read more

2024 29 Mar

  The patient lies still on the operating table, softly inhaling the anesthetic gases that keep her safely sedated during surgery. Then she breathes out, and the anesthesia that wasn’t metabolized by her body—roughly 95 percent of the gas flowing through the anesthesia machine—is exhaled, unused and unchanged. That gas is then vented through the...Read more