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Fluorinated Inhalation Anesthetics

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Organofluorine Chemistry

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Abstract

No class of chemical compounds has contributed more toward the elimination of hospital trauma than anesthetics. These drugs have changed the operating room from a chamber of horrors to a place where medical care is provided in a tranquil atmosphere to some 50 million patients every year. When inhaled, anesthetics enter the brain and induce profound sleep (hypnosis), sedation (a passive state), muscle relaxation (flaccidity) and analgesia (the absence of pain) to the level required to perform surgery. Inhalation anesthetics leave the brain and the body chemically unchanged because they are exhaled and need not be metabolized to be eliminated. In addition, the newer inhalants are not metabolized to any great extent.

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  3. Editorial Office of the Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, Birmingham, UK

    J. C. Tatlow

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Halpern, D.F. (1994). Fluorinated Inhalation Anesthetics. In: Banks, R.E., Smart, B.E., Tatlow, J.C. (eds) Organofluorine Chemistry. Topics in Applied Chemistry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1202-2_26

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