It is an essential piece of equipment in the medical field, controlling the patient's respiratory function, supplying the patient with anesthetic gases, timing the surgical operations; in general, it is a complex workstation with electrical, mechanical and pneumatic multi-components. In addition to everything necessary for the process of general anesthesia, it includes evaporators, ventilators, respiratory systems, scanning systems and monitors.
The most important part of this equipment is the set of devices necessary and sufficient for the administration and dosing of air, oxygen and anaesthetic drugs in a gaseous or vapour state for general anaesthesia, for the maintenance of normal ventilation of the respiratory system and for the constant monitoring of the patient.