Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index
The medical gas cylinders have various safety features to prevent the administration of wrong gas to the patient. Most of the features have visual impact (colour, label, markings on the cylinder body) except pin index system on the cylinder valve, so error in this feature is difficult to analyze and...
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Light House Polyclinic Mangalore
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| description | The medical gas cylinders have various safety features to prevent the administration of wrong gas to the patient. Most of the features have visual impact (colour, label, markings on the cylinder body) except pin index system on the cylinder valve, so error in this feature is difficult to analyze and is highly unpredictable. We had received one such cylinder in our institution where all other features (label, colour, marking) pointed to nitrous oxide except the pin index which resembled with that of oxygen |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2b01c258a4d64068b3110a4a8e3415022022-12-21T18:50:01ZengLight House Polyclinic MangaloreOnline Journal of Health & Allied Sciences0972-59972014-08-01132Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin IndexMukherjee S0Mitra D1Dr. B. C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences, Kolkata, IndiaDr. B. C. Roy Post Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences, Kolkata, IndiaThe medical gas cylinders have various safety features to prevent the administration of wrong gas to the patient. Most of the features have visual impact (colour, label, markings on the cylinder body) except pin index system on the cylinder valve, so error in this feature is difficult to analyze and is highly unpredictable. We had received one such cylinder in our institution where all other features (label, colour, marking) pointed to nitrous oxide except the pin index which resembled with that of oxygenhttp://www.ojhas.org/issue50/2014-2-11.htmlSafety featuresPin indexNitrous oxide cylinder |
| spellingShingle | Mukherjee S Mitra D Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences Safety features Pin index Nitrous oxide cylinder |
| title | Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index |
| title_full | Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index |
| title_fullStr | Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index |
| title_short | Medical Gas Cylinder with Mismatched Colour and Pin Index |
| title_sort | medical gas cylinder with mismatched colour and pin index |
| topic | Safety features Pin index Nitrous oxide cylinder |
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