In this week’s episode, Keith and Courtney discuss what Dead Space means to our patients and how much of it is too much.

All of our patients have anatomical dead space, but it is up to us anaesthetists to minimise the apparatus dead space. Does the apparatus dead space of a standard side stream capnograph connector affect an adult cat in the same way it affects an adult Labrador?

Also, why are they talking about snorkels and thieves of Tidal Volumes? Check it out!