Installation for extracting spent xenon from an adsorption cartridge during xenon anesthesia.

It is known that xenon anesthesia is one of the safest and most promising modern anesthesia. However, its widespread use is hampered by the high cost of xenon. Modern anesthesia-respiratory devices, even when operating in a closed circuit and small gas flows, inevitably allow the loss of xenon due to their design features.

The Institute of Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences has developed a spent xenon adsorption cartridge, characterized by significantly lower gas flow resistance and an order of magnitude greater xenon capacity compared to the existing cartridge produced by Akela, which makes working with it more convenient and reduces xenon losses, reducing the cost surgical operations. The cartridge has been introduced into the RAS hospital in Troitsk and surgical operations using it are successfully carried out.

Together with the INSOVT company, work was carried out to modernize domestic devices GKM-01 and GKM-03 for their use for measuring oxygen concentration when operating in a closed circuit. The work was successfully completed, which eliminates the obstacle to the widespread introduction of xenon anesthesia into surgical practice.

At the V Moscow International Salon of Innovation and Investment, held at the All-Russian Exhibition Center on February 15-18, 2005, the development team was awarded a gold medal.

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