Military medicine
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Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
Sevoflurane and the 885A field anesthesia machine: clinical report.
The Ohmeda 885A field anesthesia machine is equipped with a non-agent-specific, universal vaporizer that can be used with most volatile anesthetic agents. On a recent humanitarian medical mission to Honduras, the 885A was used to administer general anesthesia to 26 patients utilizing sevoflurane, a new inhalational anesthetic with a variety of clinical benefits, including less airway irritability, making it ideal for inhalation inductions. ⋯ Calculated anesthetic concentrations were compared with measured concentrations using linear regression analysis and found to have a Pearson product moment of 0.995. We find that the use of sevoflurane in the 885A is an excellent alternative to other inhalational anesthetic agents and may have applications for use during both military conflicts and peacetime missions in remote areas.