Patent ID: 6275650
Filing Date: 2001-08-14
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
Gas supply apparatus for the supply of treatment gas, e.g., an anaesthetic, to a human being or to an animal, wherein the apparatus has a vaporiser which includes a vaporising chamber that has a gas inlet means and a gas outlet means and in which a porous liquid-emitting device is arranged to expose a liquid to said vaporising chamber for vaporisation of liquid, and wherein the liquid-emitting device is connected to a liquid supply means which communicates with an external liquid source, and wherein the gas outlet means is adapted for connection to an inhalation means, characterized in that said liquid-emitting device lies against the inner surface of a wall of said vaporising chamber and wherein said liquid supply means delivers said liquid directly to said liquid-emitting device whereby the liquid is exposed exclusively via the porosities in the liquid-emitting device; and in that the apparatus includes liquid-heating means.