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BOYLES MACHINE

Typical Number in Hospital: 40 Cost Bands: 4 References: 2

This is a trade name for a type of anaesthetic machine which is named after its inventor (an anaesthetist). However, the term is in common use to describe any general-purpose continuous flow anaesthetic machine intended to provide a variable mixture of gases and vapours for general anaesthesia. Modern machines are really quite unlike the original 1917 device.

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