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Modern inhalational anesthesia is strongly connected with the administration of volatile anesthetic agents. Most of these agents exist at ambient temperature and pressure as a mixture of liquid and saturated vapor. Only nitrous oxide is in the gaseous phase under these conditions.
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Scharmer, EG. (1995). New Drug-Delivery Devices for Volatile Anesthetics. In: Schwilden, H., Stoeckel, H. (eds) Control and Automation in Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79573-2_23
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