Anesthesia . Fig. 66.—Lumbards Rubber. Ether Blanket and Elastic Mask Holder. The Mask.—The usual mask consists of a wire frame and metal hoopfor holding the gauze in place. When an ordinary ether mask isused without towels, gauze, or something else around the mask, muchof the vapor is blown into the air by the patients breath, thesurgeons, anesthetist, and nurses getting the full benefit of it, and, ina private house, the disagreeable, penetrating odor will linger almost as ETHER 203. Fig. 67.—Yankauer-Gwathmey Drop and Vapor Mask. long as if the cone had been used. The patient gets the cold
Anesthesia . Fig. 66.—Lumbards Rubber. Ether Blanket and Elastic Mask Holder. The Mask.—The usual mask consists of a wire frame and metal hoopfor holding the gauze in place. When an ordinary ether mask isused without towels, gauze, or something else around the mask, muchof the vapor is blown into the air by the patients breath, thesurgeons, anesthetist, and nurses getting the full benefit of it, and, ina private house, the disagreeable, penetrating odor will linger almost as ETHER 203. Fig. 67.—Yankauer-Gwathmey Drop and Vapor Mask. long as if the cone had been used. The patient gets the cold vapor thatsinks through the mask. Everyone suffers in consequence of this crudeand antiquated method. The prevention of waste and the administration of the ether in themost acceptable way by this method are accomplished as follows: The mask is covered with as many thicknesses of gauze as possiblewithout interference with free respiration (from 1/16 to % of an inch inthickness). The patient thus receives a more perfect vapor than if onlyone or two layers ofgauze are used,consequently thereis much less irrita-tion to the respira-tory passages. The YankauerMask.—The Yan-kauer mask, ofclosely woven wireover which arestretched several layers of gauze, is one of the best masks for the drop method of ether orchloroform. The FERGUSOiSr Mask.—The best mask yet devised for the dropmethod for ether alone is that devised by Ferguson. It consists of awire frame, so flexible that it ca
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