Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 12, 80-89, Copyright © 1965 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Elimination des risques d'explosion en anesthésie

¹ Service d'Anesthésie de l'Hôpital Sainte-Marie, Trois-Rivières, P.Q.

Operating room explosion risks cannot be eliminated entirely by simply trying to prevent sparks and static electricity when explosive anaesthetic agents are used. The pecautionary measures usually recommended are costly and so complicated that they are often neglected or forgotten. The only way to avoid explosions completely in the operation room is to ban the use of explosive agents in favour of non-explosive agents.

Non-explosive agents have been used exclusively in a 250-bed geneeral hospital and this paper suggests that they have not increased the operative or postoperative morbidity or mortality. The authors compare a series of operations done before the explosive agents were banned with a series of the same procedures done while using non-explosive agents exclusively. The results show that the surgeon need not fear this method since it is as efficient as any other method and gives equally good results.

Hospital management will avoid costly operating room equipment and there will be no fear of costly law-suits following a disastrous operating room explosion.

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Reçu pour publication en juin 1964.