Health Sciences · Hospital for Sick Children
An amber-tinted glass bottle with a primarily yellow and white label and a yellow plastic cap. Removing the threaded yellow cap exposes a white plastic collar adapted to the filling port of a modern anesthetic vaporizer. The bottle has been opened and is about half full.
Accession Number: 2025.sk.25
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Primary Materials: Glass, Plastic
Printed vertically on one side of the label: “Lot: 1274049// Exp: 25FEB2027// 20070352//”
Printed along the top edge of the label: “DIN 02172763”
Barcode: “8 20271 44565 8”
Adjacent to the barcode: “no 04456”
Dimensions (cm):
Sevoflurane is a volatile anesthetic developed in the United States in the late 1960s as an alternative to halothane. It was eventually adopted in Japan before being trialled in the United States and approved by the FDA in 1994. Like several other halogenated inhaled anesthetic gases, sevoflurane is subject to concern about its environmental impact as a greenhouse gas.
The bottle has been opened. The artifact is otherwise in like-new condition.
Associated Instruments:
Manufacturer: AbbVie Corporation. Saint-Laurent, QC.
Date of Manufacture: c. 2022
Provenance:
Philip C. Larson and Richard A. Jaffe. Practical Anesthetic Management: The Art of Anesthesiology. Springer International Publishing. 2017, 91-102.
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