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An improved, compact and low-maintenance respiration humidifier of a simple design is proposed, which has an outer jacket with a water feed as well as a breathing gas feed line and breathing gas drain line and contains a bundle of hydrophobic hollow fibers. The breathing gas feed line and the breath

An improved, compact and low-maintenance respiration humidifier of a simple design is proposed, which has an outer jacket with a water feed as well as a breathing gas feed line and breathing gas drain line and contains a bundle of hydrophobic hollow fibers. The breathing gas feed line and the breathing gas drain line are in a gas flow connection with the interior of the hollow fibers. The hollow fibers preferably include polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and have structure for electrical heating on their outer, water-side circumferential surface.

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1. A respiration humidifier comprising:an outer jacket; a plurality of hydrophobic hollow fibers positioned in said outer jacket and made of a material permeable to water vapor but impermeable to liquid water; a water feed connected to said outer jacket; a breathing feed line and a breathing gas dra

1. A respiration humidifier comprising:an outer jacket; a plurality of hydrophobic hollow fibers positioned in said outer jacket and made of a material permeable to water vapor but impermeable to liquid water; a water feed connected to said outer jacket; a breathing feed line and a breathing gas drain line in flow connection with an interior of said hollow fibers; electrical heating means for electrical heating said hollow fibers on their outer circumferential surface.