Gas Analysis Flashcards
Delivery of gases during anesthesia must be ________.
tightly controlled
We must know ________we are delivering at all times.
how much gas
Several different kinds of ________ are available
analyzers
What concept do we use when analyzing gas?
diverting or a non-diverting concept
What is a diverting technique?
Will use a pump to pull a gas sample into the analyzer where the analysis will take place
What is a non-diverting technique?
Will have the meter placed on the in- or expiratory limb of the circuit and the analysis will take place without displacing any gas sample.
What are organic and inorganic anesthetic gas analysis techniques (6)?
Infrared absorption, raman scattering, mass spectrometry, piezoelectric analysis, interferometric refractometry and gas-liquid chromatography
What are oxygen analysis techniques (5)?
Electrogalvanic cell, polarographic electrode (Clark electrode), paramagnetic oxygen sensor, fluorescence quenching and pH optode
What are carbon dioxide analysis techniques (3)?
Infrared absorption analysis, severinghaus PCO2 electrode and fluorescence quenching
What is infrared absorption analysis?
Analysis uses each anesthetic gas’s ability to absorb specific frequencies of EMR in the infrared spectrum.
What principle is the foundation of infrared analyzers?
Each gas has specific and unique infrared light absorption spectra.
Describe the components (Wavelength and Energy) of red light on the visible spectrum?
Longer wavelength and lower energy
What is the relationship between gases and infrared absorption?
A sample of a gas or a mixture of gases is subjected to a known range of infrared frequencies.
Infrared absorption Analysis: How can the the specific frequencies of gases be id?
The frequencies lost due to absorption are measured, and the gas or gases may be identified by the specific frequencies each gas absorbs.
Anesthetic agents’ infrared absorption spectra are _______ but close in ________.
Unique; Frequency
What is important about newer infrared absorption analysis monitors?
Capable of identifying specific agents without preprogramming the specific agent.
Infrared absorption Analysis: What determines concentration?
The amount of infrared absorption
What does infrared absorption measure?
Polyatomic molecules
What can be measured using Infrared absorption Analysis?
volatile agents, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide
What cannot be measured using Infrared absorption Analysis?
OXYGEN AND NITROGEN
What is important to know about HFA propellants (Metered dosed inhalers)?
When giving a breathing treatment with an MDI during anesthesia, we inject this HFA into the system and the infrared gas analyzer will be confused and give false readings until no longer in breathing system.
Infrared absorption: What effects the wavelength of the gas?
Depends on the specific gas used
What is raman scattering analysis?
The interaction of EMR with matter is the underlying principle used with Raman scattering analysis of gases.
What technique is used during raman scattering analysis?
Diverting technique to sample the gas
Describe the components of raman scattering analysis.
Raman scattering passes a monochromatic laser beam through a gas mixture, causing an increased vibration frequency of the excited gas molecules. A laser beam interacts with an anesthetic gas molecule, it may be absorbed (as previously described with infrared absorption analysis) or scattered.
The scattered frequencies measured in this spectral analysis are represented as _________.
Stokes lines.
What is scattering?
A frequency change (energy change) of the initial laser beam after it interacts with gas molecule
What is a component of the laser frequency in Raman scattering analysis?
the molecules may be scattered at higher or lower frequencies
Each anesthetic gas scatters laser frequencies _______.
uniquely
How are gases analyzed in raman scattering?
A gas or gas mixture may be analyzed and identified by comparing the gas sample scattering spectrum to that of known gas scattering spectrum.
What does raman scattering technology require?
that a gas molecule be diatomic for identification
What can the raman scattering analysis identify?
Oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, nitrous oxide, and all volatile anesthetics, including mixtures of volatile anesthetics
What cannot the raman scattering analysis identify?
Helium (monatomic)
What is not required in raman scattering analysis?
Waste gas scavenging, return the sample to the patient circuit
What are polyatomic molecules?
Molecules containing more than two atoms {carbon dioxide(CO2) andwater(H2O)}
Raman scattering analyzers are small and portable but require _________.
calibration
What are two situations that make raman scattering analysis less accurate?
high carrier gas flow rates and small tidal volumes as with some pediatric cases
What happens if our tidal volumes are not accurate?
we may not be delivering what we think we are (hyperventilating state)`
What is mass spectrometry?
ionizes gas molecules and passes them through a magnetic field
The gas molecules with the ________ mass-to-charge ratio are easily deflected by the magnetic field and collected by an ion detector.
Lowest