RT Book, Section
A1 Iserson, Kenneth V.
SR Print(0)
ID 1124428224
T1 Anesthesia: Ketamine, Ether, and Halothane
T2 Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847629
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124428224
RD 2024/04/19
AB A  group  of  anesthesiologists  familiar  with  international  disaster  relief  operations  wrote,  “There  is  a  danger  of  the  modern  practitioner  becoming  an  ‘anesthetic  dinosaur,’  unable  to  survive  except  in  a  sophisticated  technological  environment.”1  Inexperience  with  ketamine,  ether,  and  halothane,  the  anesthetics  commonly  used  in  developing  countries,  may  come  to  haunt  those  trying  to  deliver  inhalational  anesthesia  in  austere  circumstances.  Ketamine  is  an  easy  and  safe  anesthetic  to  give,  even  by  non-anesthetists;  ether  is  extremely  safe,  portable,  and  deliverable  by  improvised  means.  Modern  anesthetists  often  aren’t  familiar  with  halothane.  Therefore,  a  description  of  these  three  anesthetics  will  help  clinicians  deliver  safe  anesthesia.