a system diagram of an exemplary embodiment of as computing system 200 as may be used to implement embodiments of the method 100 or in carrying out embodiments of portions of the anesthesia ventilator 10 the computing system 200 includes a processing system 206 storage system 204 software 202 communication interface 208 and as user interface 210 the processing system 206 loads and executes software 202 from the storage system 204 including a software module 230 when executed by the computing system 200 software module 230 directs the processing system to operate as described herein in further detail in accordance with the method 200 or a portion thereof it should be noted that the computing system 200 may be configured in a number of locations proximate or remote from the anesthesia ventilator 10 for example the computing system 200 may be included in the ventilator 10 in the rfid reader 30 and or in any user workstation proximate to the ventilator 150 or remote in a practitioner 39 s station care station or other computer station although the computing system 200 as depicted in fig4 includes one application module 230 in the present example it is to be understood that one or more modules could provide the.