I have a good recent (this morning) story on this subject. Patient intubated and just gone onto vent. Surgeon ready to go. Gas man decides he is not happy and switches to bag while ODP gets another trolley and they swap over. Now all happy, yours truely gets called. Problem turns out to be sticky valve on exp. side of APL. Reason...a few ml's of water! Woke the anaesthetist up first thing on a Monday morning I'm sure! We don't use HME filters BTW. Things aren't helped by the room air being A/C to 24C or so, but 80-90% RH!!
Any ideas for keeping things dry?
