Inhaled anesthetics: An historical overview

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 323-330

  Whalen, Francis X ^a   Bacon, Douglas R ^a   Smith, Hugh M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthetics; History; Inhalation agents

Indexed keywords

BUTANE; CHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE; CHLOROETHANE; CHLOROFORM; CYCLOPROPANE; DESFLURANE; ENFLURANE; ETHANE; ETHER DERIVATIVE; ETHYL VINYL ETHER; ETHYLENE; FLUORINATED HYDROCARBON; FLUORINE; FLUROXENE; FREON; HALOGEN; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; METHOXYFLURANE; OXYGEN; PROPANE; PROPYLENE; SEVOFLURANE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM DERIVATIVE; URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE; VINYL ETHER;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; BLEEDING DISORDER; BROMINATION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHLORINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG COST; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FLUORINATION; HEADACHE; HEART DISEASE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LABOR PAIN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MENTAL IRRITATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL DISORDER; VOMITING;

EID: 19944411176     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2005.02.001     Document Type: Review

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