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<devon@ol*.ch*> wrote:
>I ran across something today that might be of interest to people here.
>A company in Germany has recently released an oxygen treatment unit that
>has a rebreather design. The system supplies 100% O2 to the user but the
>exhalation goes to a counter-lung and is scrubbed and rebreathed.
It seems to me that any nitrogen initially in the loop or in the
patient's lungs, or any outgassed during treatment, would remain in the
loop. This would reduce the effective O2 percentage to a point below
100%. I understand that a standard practise with diving rebreathers,
during decompression stops, is to periodically purge the breathing loop
to eliminate excess nitrogen. A similar practise is, I suspect, quite
likely necessary with this treatment unit. Has anyone looked at the
manual for this unit yet?
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