Trifluoroethylvinyl ether (fluoromar); a preliminary report on clinical experience and animal experiment.

Abstract

In observations of 80 cases in which Fluoromar was used for inhalation anesthesia it was noted that induction was rapid; maintenance although labile, was usually smooth; and recovery of reflexes was rapid. Anesthetic complications were minimal, and postanesthetic complications were limited to nausea and vomiting in no greater incidence than that expected to follow the use of most inhalation anesthetic agents. Fluoromar produces rapid, and not particularly unpleasant, loss of consciousness, and will produce complete anesthesia without supplement. However, the muscular relaxation afforded by Fluoromar is not complete, and delayed recovery from anesthesia may follow attempts to produce relaxation by deepening too greatly the level of anesthesia. The inflammability of Fluoromar is less than that of other inhalation agents.

• Authors: W H DORNETTE
• Journal: California medicine (Calif Med) Vol. 85 Issue 5 Pg. 311-3 (Nov 1956) ISSN: 0008-1264 [Print] United States
• PMID: 13364679 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anesthetics, Inhalation
• Ethers
• Ether
• fluroxene

Topics

• Analgesia
• Anesthesia
• Anesthesia and Analgesia
• Anesthesia, Inhalation
• Anesthetics, Inhalation
• Animal Experimentation
• Animals
• Consciousness
• Ether
• Ethers
• Humans
• Maintenance
• Muscle Relaxation
• Nausea
• Pain
• Pain Management
• Relaxation
• Vomiting