Tag: methoxyflurane
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Methoxyflurane toxicity: historical determination and lessons for modern patient and occupational exposure.
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The Abortive Lives of Modern Inhalation Anesthetics.
READERS of this periodical were probably intrigued when, in 1971, almost an entire issue was devoted to studies in volunteers of a new anesthetic, isoflurane (Forane), a novel and useful editorial departure. Since then, a series of reports in the Journal has cast further light on some of the more arcane properties of this heavily […]
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Fluoride concentrations in urine of delivery ward personnel following exposure to low concentrations of methoxyflurane.
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Serum fluoride levels following commencement of methoxyflurane for patient analgesia in an ambulance service.
Editor—Methoxyflurane, once a frequently used anaesthetic agent,1 is re-emerging as an inhalation analgesic. In modern practice, it is given in doses of up to 6 mL via a proprietary patient-controlled self-delivery device2 with an activated carbon filter designed to adsorb some methoxyflurane vapour from the patient’s exhaled breath.3 Methoxyflurane is an organic vapour, identified as […]
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Gaseous Anesthetics.
Introduction The history of anesthesia is a relatively recent one; if one begins with the analgesia dentist, Horace Wells, who discovered the used nitrous oxide during a dental extraction in the early 1800s. The first public showing of anesthesia occurred in October 1846, when ether was used to prevent pain during surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. […]