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Inhalation Anesthetics

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The Electroencephalogram in Anesthesia

Abstract

In modern combination anesthesia, inhalation methods are either employed for the main anesthesia or in low-dose intermittently used adjuncts of anesthesia. Pure inhalation anesthesia is only applied in cases with special indications, most frequently in pediatric anesthesiology. The inhalation anesthetics used today include — nitrous oxide (laughing gas), halothane, enflurane, methoxyflurane, isoflurane, and fluroxene. Ethyl chloride, chloroform, diethyl ether, cyclopropane, and trichloroethylene are hardly used today due to their disadvantages either in clinical effects or application. Of the various substances available, each hospital normally uses one or two inhalation anesthetics according to its particular requirements in addition to nitrous oxide, which is used as a basic analgetic. In this chapter, therefore, our own findings are described only for halothane and enflurane.

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    Professor Dr. Ina Pichlmayr & Privat-Dozent Dr. Ulrich Lips

  2. Zentrum Neurologische Medizin, Abt. II, Institut für Klinische Neurophysiologie und Experimentelle Neurologie, Konstanty-Gutschow-Str. 8, D-3000, Hannover 61, Germany

    Professor Dr. Helmut Künkel

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Pichlmayr, I., Lips, U., Künkel, H. (1984). Inhalation Anesthetics. In: The Electroencephalogram in Anesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69562-9_7

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