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A PEEP Device for Anesthesia Circuits

DUKE B. WEEKS, MD^*, and PAUL B. COMER, MD

*Associate Professor in Anesthesia. Assistant Professor in Anesthesia. Department of Anesthesia, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103.

Abstract

IN CRITICAL care or intensive care units, patients with the adult respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) often are treated with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP).^1–3 However, when they require an operation, they may only be given O₂, intraoperatively because the anesthesiologist has no efficient method of providing PEEP. The presently available methods require cumbersome water seals,^4.5 or specially constructed valves.⁶ Therefore, we have evaluated the clinical use of a commercially available apparatus that is easily integrated into standard anesthesia circuits to provide PEEP during the administration of anesthesia.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999