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- W K Grodin, M A Epstein, and R A Epstein.
- Anesthesiology. 1985 Jan 1;62(1):60-4.
AbstractThe authors demonstrated that soda lime will adsorb enflurane or isoflurane as a function of the water content of the soda lime. Various volumes of liquid enflurane or isoflurane were placed in an equilibration flask containing fresh (15% water by weight) or dried soda lime and the vapor phase anesthetic concentrations plotted. When dry soda lime was used, the plot of concentration as a function of volume of liquid added was biphasic: initially flat and then rising linearly. This is qualitatively similar to data reported previously for halothane. The authors hypothesize that drying soda lime produces a molecular sieve-like structure, as adsorption is greatest for molecules with small carbon chain lengths and kinetic diameters, or with structural characteristics such as cis/trans isomerism, which effectively reduce molecular size.
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