Heart/lung machine started automatic calibration of o2 analyzer during rewarming.Aortic cross clamp on.Heard hissing sound (as if there was a gas pressure release); inspected all aspects of circuit and found source was internal gas system of the terumo advanced system.Noticed "cal" readout on touch-screen under fio2 display.Also noticed gas flow and fio2 had dropped to the lowest start-up setting of 21% oxygen and just under 0.5 lpm of gas flow.About 20 seconds between hissing sound and discovering source.The pao2 display on the terumo cdi had the lowest reading of 120mmhg and pco2 was in the low 60s.Overrode auto-calibration by increasing gas flow and fio2 on the touch screen and "cal" display disappeared.No patient harm.
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