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and other anesthetic equipment. "Changing the entire filter costs $7.50.
With the $2.78 filter, you only have to change the mask, which costs us
$1.83," says Carol Cappella, RN, MSN, CNOR, the clinical director of
the Delray Beach (Fla.) Surgery Center. "It really makes room turnover
easy," Gary Hindin, MD, of Greater Florida Anesthesiologists brought
the idea to Ms. Cappella. "You can leave the circuit on the machine and
just change the filter and the mask. It's especially useful when you're
hosting multiple general cases in the same room." OSM
E-mail doconnor@outpatientsurgery.net.
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