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High‐flow nasal oxygen can be administered at induction of anaesthesia for the purposes of pre‐oxygenation and apnoeic oxygenation. This intervention is claimed to enhance carbon dioxide elimination during apnoea, but the extent to which this occurs remains poorly quantified. The optimal nasal oxygen flow rate for gas exchange is also unknown. In this study, 114 patients received pre‐oxygenation with...