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Ref NoOBJ/OBJ/8/32/445
Acc No2026/9
TitleObstetric Flying Squad anaesthetic apparatus
Date1970s/1980s
Description Of ItemCircular metal frame with 2 carrying handles: holding 2 oxygen cylinders and 2 nitrous oxide cylinders, with reducing valves and pressure gauges, and 4 rotameters (L to R: nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, cyclopropane, oxygen). It has an extendable pole on which could be clamped infusion/transfusion apparatus. The concept of a ‘flying squad’ was that a team including an obstetrician, a midwife and an anaesthetist would travel to the site of the delivery, often in someone’s home, GP surgery or other facility.
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