Abstract: A ventilator system and a tracheal tube, inserted into a patient's trachea to carry gas to and from the lungs, permit a gas mixture containing endogenous NO, which is present in the upper respiratory tract, to be supplied to the lungs. The tracheal tube has a input port which forms a connection between the interior of the tracheal tube and the upper respiratory tract. The input port draws or forces an amount of the gas containing endogenous NO into the tracheal tube and this gas accompanies the respiratory gas into the lungs during inspiration.

Abstract: A device for fixing and sealing a container having an open frontal side against a cover which permits detaching the container from the cover, in particular an absorber container for carbon dioxide in a respiration apparatus, allows the absorber container to be quickly detached so that it can be rapidly emptied or filled, and the absorber container can then be quickly reaffixed and sealed gas tight. For this purpose, a sealing and fixing arrangement is disposed along the longitudinal side of the container against the open frontal side thereof so as to be displaceable into two end positions, whereby in the first end position the arrangement has a shorter distance to the open frontal side of the container than in the second end position.

Abstract: A gas-mixing system for anaesthetic apparatuses has a vaporizer unit for liquid anaesthetic, a first gas line carrying a specific first flow of gas to the vaporizer unit, and a second gas line carrying a second flow of gas past the vaporizer unit. The first gas flow and the second gas flow jointly constitute a total flow of respiratory gas. A first flow regulator is arranged to regulate total flow, and a second flow regulator is arranged to regulate the second flow according to the difference between total flow and a reference value for the first flow.

Abstract: A dehumidifying device is often used to protect measurement equipment from condensation during measurements of a flowing gas. A dehumidifying device which does not need to be replaced as a result of becoming moisture-saturated is achieved by a container filled with a hydrophilic material and connected to a moisture permeable element. When a gas flows through the device via an inlet, a flow channel and an outlet, the hydrophilic material absorbs moisture from the flowing gas. The absorbed moisture is released into ambient air via the moisture permeable element.

Abstract: A safety system is provided for anesthetic systems with at least two anesthetic vaporizers, the safety system preventing the simultaneous supply of anesthetic to a breathing circuit by more than one anesthetic vaporizer. The safety system which prevents this includes a setting means for each vaporizer which emits an activation signal when moved from an OFF position to an active position. The activation signal is received by a control unit which then sends a control signal to blocking valves, respectively arranged by the anesthetic vaporizers, and prevents the passage of breathing gas to more than one anesthetic vaporizer for vaporization of an anesthetic.

Abstract: An anesthesia system has a fresh gas source for supplying a defined flow of fresh respiratory gas to a respiratory circuit wherein the flow is regulated by a flow valve which is controlled on the basis of a flow measured by a flow meter. The anesthesia system is permits the flow meter to be calibrated while the system is in operation to permit the supply of a continuous, or substantially continuous, flow of fresh respiratory gas to the respiratory circuit.

Abstract: A dehumidifying device for use in a ventilator for reducing the relative humidity of the expired air of a patient has a plurality of tubes, permeable to moisture, arrayed in a bundle and encircled by a loosely wound spiral harness between a first connection section and a second connection section in the dehumidifying device. When gas expired by the patient reaches the dehumidifying device, the water vapor therein diffuses into the tubes, and the relative humidity of expired gas is decreased.

Abstract: A ventilator for supplying and emitting respiratory gas to and from the airways of a human or an animal patient has a multiple-function safety valve located between a 10 control valve and the airways. The safety valve is biased in its closing direction by two springs, which apply force that corresponds to a predetermined overpressure, and is biased in its opening direction by a spring loaded piston, which applies force that exceeds the force of the springs. When electrical power is supplied to the ventilator, an electromagnet is energized. The electromagnet pulls the piston against the force of its spring load, and the safety valve closes. By means of a control device, the pressure in an inspiration section of the ventilator can be monitored and the electromagnet is disconnected at a programmed overpressure. In the event of a power failure, the safety valve will open and air can pass through the open safety valve to the airways.

Abstract: An apparatus for the administration of a respiratory gas and at least one anaesthetic to a living being, in which apparatus the anaesthetic is vaporized in a vaporizing unit and is entrained in respiratory gas, acquires a safer and more accurate control of the anaesthetic concentration level by means of a regulating valve which controls the flow of respiratory gas through the vaporizing unit and in that a regulating device controls the regulating valve with such accuracy that a preselected concentration of vaporized anaesthetic in the respiratory gas is substantially fully maintained. To further increase the control of the apparatus it may also be provided with a feedback system for both the anaesthetic concentration level and the total flow.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for reuse of anesthetics in inhalation anesthesia is described. In the method, fresh gas is mixed with highly concentrated anesthetic from an anesthetics evaporator (3) in a collector conduit (1) leading into and out of a patient, in such a way that, when the patient exhales, the exhalation gas is passed through an adsorption filter (5) disposed in the ingoing and outgoing collector conduit (1) and arranged distally relative to the outlet (4) from the anesthetics evaporator (3), as seen from the patient (2), the anesthetic not absorbed by the patient being adsorbed by an adsorption material (6) in the adsorption filter (5), while the rest of the exhalation gas leaves the apparatus, the adsorbed anesthetic being desorbed from the adsorption material (6) when the patient inhales and retransferred to the patient.

Abstract: In the illustrated embodiment, the moisture reservoir comprises a tube of gas-permeable, hygroscopic material. The exhalation flow path is into a blind axial bore of a spool like member having a series of transverse notches or cuts at the top and bottom which provide interspaces leading from the bore to the tube which covers the notches at their periphery. The notches leave integral fins or lamellae with large surface area exposed to the in-flow of dry respiration gas radially through the tube wall and into the interspaces which provide further reservoirs for moisture and warmth.