Relationship between potency and boiling point of general anesthetics: A thermodynamic consideration

International Journal of Pharmaceutics

Volumn 202, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 41-45

  Dastmalchi, Siavoush ^a   Barzegar Jalali, Mohammad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Anesthetic potencies; Boiling point; Ferguson principle; Thermodynamics; Volatile anesthetics

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; DESFLURANE; ENFLURANE; FLUORENE; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; METHOXYFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; SEVOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; DRUG POTENCY; ENTROPY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; HUMANS; THERMODYNAMICS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0034691742     PISSN: 03785173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5173(00)00425-7     Document Type: Article

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