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Induction of General Anesthesia

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General anesthesia can be induced either by intravenous injection or inhalation of anesthetic drugs. The advantages and disadvantages of each are considered, and an effective technique for inhalation induction is described.

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  1. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA

    C. Philip Larson Jr. MDCM (Professor Emeritus, Anesthesia and Neurosurgery Stanford University Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology (Ret.)

  2. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Richard A. Jaffe MD, PhD (Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurosurgery)

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Larson, C.P., Jaffe, R.A. (2017). Induction of General Anesthesia. In: Practical Anesthetic Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42866-6_2

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