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Anesthetics, Inhalation  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Anesthetic, Inhalation
  • Inhalation Anesthetic
  • Inhalation Anesthetics

Note

  • see note at ANESTHETICS

Scope note

  • Gases or volatile liquids that vary in the rate at which they induce anesthesia; potency; the degree of circulation, respiratory, or neuromuscular depression they produce; and analgesic effects. Inhalation anesthetics have advantages over intravenous agents in that the depth of anesthesia can be changed rapidly by altering the inhaled concentration. Because of their rapid elimination, any postoperative respiratory depression is of relatively short duration. (From AMA Drug Evaluations Annual, 1994, p173)

History note

  • 95

In other languages

  • inhalaatioanesteetit

    Finnish

  • anestesiakaasu
  • anestesiakaasut
  • hengitysanesteetit
  • hengitysanesteetti
  • hengitysanestesia-aine
  • hengitysanestesia-aineet
  • hengitysnukutusaine
  • hengitysnukutusaineet
  • inhaatioanestesia-aineet
  • inhalaatioanesteetti
  • inhalaatioanestesia-aine
  • inhalaationukutusaine
  • inhalaationukutusaineet
  • nukutuskaasu
  • nukutuskaasut
  • Inhalationsanestetika

    Swedish

  • Anestetika, inhalation
  • Bedövningsgaser

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018685

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