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The capnograph provides information about the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled and inhaled. This allows evaluation of respiratory depression and any rebreathing.

If monitoring anesthesia was easy, everyone would like to do it; and that does NOT seem to be the case. What are some of the most important considerations about choosing monitoring equipment and what questions are commonly asked?

The purpose of a CO2 absorbent in a rebreathing anesthesia circuit is to absorb and remove CO2 from the patient’s exhaled gases so it cannot be rebreathed. - Dr Wagner

Advantages of isoflurane over older inhalants are: speed of induction and recovery, greater control of depth of anesthesia, less metabolism by the drug in the liver and significantly less sensitization of the heart to catecholamines.