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Alcohol in anaesthesia and surgical resuscitation
Author(s) -
WHITBY J. D.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1980.tb03830.x
Subject(s) - medicine , resuscitation , anesthesia , general anaesthesia , analgesic , intensive care medicine
Summary The anaesthetic and analgesic properties of alcohol have been known for several thousand years, but there is little evidence that surgeons were employing it frequently for these purposes in the days before the discovery of reliable inhalation anaesthesia. Its main use was as a stimulant for resuscitation. Attempts to introduce its use into anaesthetic practice in this century have not been successful.