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Table 1 Carbon monoxide concentrations. Legend: Peak and median interquartile range carbon monoxide concentration [CO] in parts per million for each experiment: ex.1 = experiment 1, ex.2= experiment 2, both with desflurane 3.0 vol%, enflurane 0.6 vol%, isoflurane 0.6 vol%, halothane 0.45 vol% and sevoflurane 0.8 vol% in completely dry sodalime.

From: Carbon monoxide production from five volatile anesthetics in dry sodalime in a patient model: halothane and sevoflurane do produce carbon monoxide; temperature is a poor predictor of carbon monoxide production

Anesthetic vapor

Peak [CO] ex.1

Peak [CO] ex.2

Median [CO] ex.1

Median [CO] ex.2

Desflurane

13889

14262

1809 (1092–5947)

1816 (1050–6378)

Enflurane

10187

10654

1485 (793–4490)

2044 (892–4394)

Isoflurane

2512

2382

588 (329–1430)

664 (329–1311)

Halothane

185

210

28 (0–92)

31 (0–94)

Sevoflurane

113

121

0 (0–36)

5 (0–43)