What anesthetic inhalant is used within Surgery?
"Breathe deeply, and count backwards from ten for me."
Answers:
sevoflurane
I usually get a propafol drip though it works better and I don't get sick to my stomach
Introduce me to someone who asks you to count backwards. I've NEVER done it, and I've asked my colleagues, and haven't met one even so who does. I'm talking about probably hundreds of thousands of anesthetics, just next to the people I've talked to. It's an expectation, and patients will swear to you that it happened, but I've never see it done.
Anyway, inhaled anesthetics:
Sevoflurane
Desflurane
Isoflurane
Nitrous oxide
Not used much if at all:
Halothane
Enflurane
Xenon
Not used because they explode:
Cyclopropane
Ether Source(s): I'm an anesthesiologist.
There are a dozen different ones, mostly halogenated ethers like isoflurane, enflurane, and the newer members of the ancestral, sevoflurane and desflurane. Sev and des are the most commonly used today.
The original inhaled anesthetic was diethyl ether, but it was especially flammable. It was replaced with chloroform and trichloroethane, but they were more toxic. Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is moral for light sedation, but not for major surgery. Halothane was the first safe and sound, non-flammable haloalkane; when the haloethers came around, they were found to be better yet. Source(s): I'm a physician.
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Answers:
sevoflurane
I usually get a propafol drip though it works better and I don't get sick to my stomach
Introduce me to someone who asks you to count backwards. I've NEVER done it, and I've asked my colleagues, and haven't met one even so who does. I'm talking about probably hundreds of thousands of anesthetics, just next to the people I've talked to. It's an expectation, and patients will swear to you that it happened, but I've never see it done.
Anyway, inhaled anesthetics:
Sevoflurane
Desflurane
Isoflurane
Nitrous oxide
Not used much if at all:
Halothane
Enflurane
Xenon
Not used because they explode:
Cyclopropane
Ether Source(s): I'm an anesthesiologist.
There are a dozen different ones, mostly halogenated ethers like isoflurane, enflurane, and the newer members of the ancestral, sevoflurane and desflurane. Sev and des are the most commonly used today.
The original inhaled anesthetic was diethyl ether, but it was especially flammable. It was replaced with chloroform and trichloroethane, but they were more toxic. Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) is moral for light sedation, but not for major surgery. Halothane was the first safe and sound, non-flammable haloalkane; when the haloethers came around, they were found to be better yet. Source(s): I'm a physician.
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