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- Title
Enflurane analgesia.
- Authors
Firn, Shirley
- Abstract
An air-enflurane mixture was used for inhalation analgesia in conscious patients undergoing painful procedures such as burns dressings. A preliminary study indicated that enflurane possessed definite analgesic properties, but that the concentration of the air-enflurane mixture was critical if restlessness was to be avoided and cooperation retained. Further studies established that 1% enflurane in air provided good analgesia in the absence of anaesthesia. The analgesic effects were similar to those produced by 0.35% methoxyflurane in air, but were produced in a much shorter time (about 3 minutes compared with 9 to 10 minutes). Preoperative starvation was unnecessary and nausea and vomiting were absent. Details are given of the use of enflurane analgesia in 32 conscious burned patients who underwent 101 burns dressing procedures.
- Subjects
ENFLURANE; SURGICAL dressings; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; PENTHRANE; NAUSEA; BURN patients
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (Supplement), 1982, Vol 75, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0267-5331
- Publication type
Article