Fluothane® Vaporizer

Fluothane® Vaporizer

Anesthesia, Inhalation – instrumentation

Vaporizers

Halothane

This variable bypass vaporizer was the first to allow the anesthetist to directly set the percentage of anesthetic agent with a dial. The British Cyprane Company produced the Fluotec® vaporizer (commercial name Fluothane®) in the late 1950s to be used exclusively with the newly discovered anesthetic Halothane.

1950s

Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine collection.

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