Question

A mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide used for artificial respiration

Answer 1

A breathing gas is a mixture of gaseous chemical elements and compounds used for respiration. Air is the most common, and only natural, breathing gas. But other mixtures of gases, or pure gases, are also used in breathing equipment and enclosed habitats such as scuba equipment, surface supplied divingequipment, recompression chambers, submarines, space suits, spacecraft, medical life support and first aid equipment, high-altitude mountaineering and anaesthetic machines.

Answer 2

5% carbon dioxide/oxygen medical gas mixture is used to stimulaterespiration after a period of apnoea and in the management of chronicrespiratory obstruction after the obstruction has been removed. 5%carbon dioxide/oxygen medical gasmixture is administered by inhalation through the lungs usually for a fixed period.