Psychological studies of human performance as affected by traces of enflurane and nitrous oxide.
February 1975
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Anesthesiology
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Bruce D, Bach MJ.
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42:194–196.
Discussion
The principal findings of this study were that enflurane affected performance on these tests in a manner qualitatively similar to, though quantitatively different from, halothane. Since the minimum alveolar concentration (MAC), an index of anesthetic potency, is about twice as high for enflurane as for halothane, comparison of the same trace amounts of each agent would be expected to show a smaller effect of enflurane. This was found in these studies. In addition, the end-expired c