Intersurgical Mapleson C Breathing System

Size: Adult/Paediatric
Bag capacity: 0.5/2L
Mapelson C
For Critical Care Units
The Intersurgical Mapleson C Breathing System is ideally suited for use in critical care units, recovery areas and accident and emergency departments
The paediatric bagging system is available with a bag capacity of 0.5 litres
The paediatric version of the universally accepted adult bagging system, incorporating a CO2 monitoring elbow at the patient connection for direct sampling
This system can be utilised in a wide range of clinical applications including physiotherapy, patient transfer, resuscitation, and may be used for both spontaneously breathing and hand ventilated patients in theatre and recovery
The adult bagging system is available with a bag capacity of 2 litres
The versatile, adult Mapleson C bagging system is ideally suited for use in critical care units, recovery areas and Accident and Emergency departments, for the induction of anaesthesia, resuscitation, patient transport and ‘bagging’, offering more ‘feel’ of the patient’s lung compliance than that offered by a selfinflating resuscitation bag. It is a perfect pick for Adult patients.
A Bain circuit is an anaesthesia delivery system that connects a patient’s airway to the anaesthesia machine. It creates an artificial atmosphere through which a patient breathes in and out.
Bain circuits use a high fresh gas flow to deliver anaesthetic gases to the patient’s airway and to wash out the exhaled carbon dioxide.
An inner tube delivers fresh gases and an outer corrugated tube serves as the outlet for exhaled gases. A Bain circuit ensures that there is no rebreathing of the exhaled gases.
Bain Circuit offered comprises coaxial modification of basic Tpiece system which has been developed for facilitating scavenging of waste anaesthetic gases. As a tube carrying fresh gas, it travels inside the outer reservoir tube to endotracheal tube connector.
Mapleson breathing systems are used for delivering oxygen and anaesthetic agents and to eliminate carbon dioxide during anaesthesia.
They consist of different components: Fresh gas flow, reservoir bag, breathing tubes, expiratory valve, and patient connection.
One of the best advantages of these bain circuits is that they are compact and inexpensive, they facilitate the scavenging of waste gases, have low dead space and offer low resistance to breathing.
It is recommended to use a bain circuit with extreme care as it will be a major risk if in case the inner tube of the bain circuit breaks or is disconnected then the entire system turns into dead space.
Components of a bain circuit include:
A corrugated, flexible and low resistance tubing
An expiratory valve which is located near the reservoir bag and is opened fully or partially depending on the type of ventilation that is being administered to the patient.
Types of valves include the adjustable pressurelimiting (APL) valve and the Heidbrink valve which is a unidirectional valve.
Reservoir Bags The antistatic reservoir bags supplied vary in capacity depending on their use i.e. for adults or paediatrics. It can be easily removed to attach a ventilator hose allowing for mechanical ventilation.