Modern Anesthetics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schüttler, Jürgen (Editor), Schwilden, Helmut (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 182
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Emergency Medicine.

Some important constraints of anesthesia must be taken into consideration when the pharmacological properties of modern anesthetics are discussed. The most imp- tant of these could be that the target effect be achieved preferably within seconds, at most within a few minutes. Similarly, offset of dru...