Drãgerwerk Ag & Co, Kgaa

Dräger Medical Ag & Co Kgaa

Uwe Bartels

Klaus Radomski

Jürgen Manigel

Ralf Heesch

Dirk-Stefan Reichert

Claus Bunke

Norbert Wruck

Matthias Witt

Sven Pasdzior

Ralf Dittmann

Martin Meyer

Ulf Pilz

Uwe Bausch

Winfried Kimmig

Bernhard Schaible

Heiko Dickfeld

A method and device, for enriching a gas flow with an anesthetic, include a gas mixer (), with gas inlets () and one or more gas outlets (), and an anesthetic dispenser () connected to the one or more gas outlets. The anesthetic dispenser at least partially enriches the gas flow to provide a breathing gas flow enriched with anesthetic at a patient connector (). A control valve () is arranged fluidically in series with the anesthetic dispenser (). The gas outlet is connected to the patient connector () via a gas channel (), arranged fluidically parallel to the anesthetic dispenser () and in which at least another control valve () is arranged. A control unit () actuates at least one control valve as a function of a desired value for an anesthetic concentration in the breathing gas flow to change anesthetic concentration at the patient connector ().

Device for providing a breathing gas flow enriched with anesthetic

An anesthetic dispensing device (), to which a carrier gas stream is fed for enriching with anesthetic, has the gas stream split into two partial gas streams, one of which flows through a bypass channel () unchanged and the other of which is fed to an evaporation chamber (), where the partial gas stream is saturated with anesthetic. In a mixing point (), both partial gas streams are mixed to form an anesthetic gas stream, which leaves the anesthetic dispensing device through the anesthetic gas outlet (). A control unit () is provided that is configured to generate a control signal for an electric motor drive () for adjusting the valve opening of the valve element () on the basis of a concentration of the anesthetic in the anesthetic gas needed at the anesthetic gas outlet () and at least one temperature-specific correction factor.

Anesthetic dispensing device

A device for metering anesthetic is provided such that a new anesthetic is immediately available for the metering when the anesthetic is changed. The metering device has an assembly unit that can be removed from the medical apparatus as a module with a reservoir () for a liquid anesthetic, an intermediate container () arranged downstream of the reservoir (), a metering gas source () connected to the intermediate container () and a metering element () for anesthetic on the discharge side of the intermediate container (). An evaporator chamber () may be provided for evaporating the metered anesthetic. A connecting device lets through at least anesthetic vapor as an interface between the assembly unit () and the medical apparatus ().

Metering device for anesthetics

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Lübeck, Germany

Uwe Bartels