Adverse events in anaesthesia: the wrong drug
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Adverse events in anaesthesia: the wrong drug.
The first general anaesthetics resulted from the action of one drug, either ether or chloroform. Today, general anaesthetics are usually complex "cocktails" and it is not uncommon for several different drugs to be given. Each of these has a distinct, predictable pharmacological action. Thus, when an unpredicted reaction occurs shortly after the injection of a drug, one possible explanation is t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0832-610X,1496-8975
DOI: 10.1007/bf03009795