Briscoe C E
Br Med J. 1970 Feb 21;1(5694):488-92. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.5694.488.
A survey in South Wales has been used to estimate the annual cost of individual anaesthetic drugs used in the National Health Service. Halothane, costing pound900,000, is the most expensive item, followed by oxygen ( pound390,000) and nitrous oxide ( pound350,000). The total cost of drugs used for hospital anaesthetics is estimated to be pound2,300,000, and for dental anaesthetics pound156,000. The drug cost of the average hospital anaesthetic is pound1 3s. and of the average dental anaesthetic 1s. 9d.The provision of liquid oxygen stores could reduce oxygen costs by up to 90%, and the greater use of closed-circuit anaesthesia, with low gas flows, could save pound750,000 annually. The drug cost of an anaesthetic in Cardiff has risen from 8s. 4d. in 1959 to 19s. 10d. in 1968, but costs in Cardiff compare favourably with published figures from other similar centres.
一项针对南威尔士的调查被用于估算英国国家医疗服务体系中使用的各类麻醉药物的年度成本。氟烷成本为90万英镑，是最昂贵的项目，其次是氧气（39万英镑）和一氧化二氮（35万英镑）。用于医院麻醉的药物总成本估计为230万英镑，用于牙科麻醉的药物成本为15.6万英镑。平均一次医院麻醉的药物成本为1英镑3先令，平均一次牙科麻醉的药物成本为1先令9便士。提供液氧储存设施可使氧气成本降低多达90%，更多地使用低气体流量的闭路麻醉每年可节省75万英镑。加的夫一次麻醉的药物成本已从1959年的8先令4便士升至1968年的19先令10便士，但加的夫的成本与其他类似中心公布的数据相比具有优势。
