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Theories of Narcosis

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The various historic hypotheses regarding narcosis are reviewed. The chapter closes with the action on the multimodal receptors of inhalatory anaesthetics.

If many theories are used to explain a single phenomenon, then none of them is completely convincing

(Livio Zava, general surgeon, Treviso-Italy)

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Alemanno, F. (2020). Theories of Narcosis. In: Alemanno, F. (eds) Biochemistry for Anesthesiologists and Intensivists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26721-6_15

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