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Equipment & Monitors

Anesthesia machine, breathing circuit, vaporizer, scavenging, monitors, alarms.

NBCRNA blueprint weight: Equipment & Instrumentation ~15-17%

Topics

  • ·Anesthesia machine pre-use checkout (FDA 1993)
  • ·Vaporizer principles + variable bypass
  • ·Breathing circuit — circle, Bain, Mapleson
  • ·CO₂ absorbents (soda lime, Amsorb)
  • ·Scavenging systems
  • ·Standard ASA monitors
  • ·Capnography waveforms
  • ·Pulse oximetry physics + pitfalls
  • ·BIS / SedLine / processed EEG
  • ·TEE / TTE basics

Study tools for this unit

Q-bank — Equipment & Monitors questions →3D anatomy →Surgical cases →Drug box →
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