Download – Servicing a Seized Oxford Miniature Vaporiser

The Oxford Minature Vaporizer (Penlon Ltd) is widely used, suitable for drawover use and very popular in the developing world. It is simple, robust, and can be used to deliver almost any volatile anaesthetic agent, mostly used with halothene. Like any piece of equipment, it needs servicing from time to time. As with much apparatus, keeping it clean is one of the best ways of looking after it. This article deals with the problem of accumulation of materials inside the vaporizer, which make it increasingly difficult to move the control pointer.