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New Intravenous Anesthetic Drugs: Etomidate and Midazolam

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New Anesthetic Agents, Devices and Monitoring Techniques

Part of the book series: Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology ((DCCA,volume 3))

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New intravenous drugs hopefully are better than existing compounds. Intravenous anesthetics ideally provide hypnosis, amnesia, analgesia, without toxicity. There are two intravenous drugs whose release by the FDA is imminent. One is etomidate which is old, having been available for many years in Europe and the other is midazolam which is young and still being investigated worldwide. The following discussions review pertinent pharmacology of these drugs, some of which appear in Table 1 below.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Utah Medical School, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84132, USA

    Theodore H. Stanley MD  & W. Clayton Petty MD  & 

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Reves, J.G. (1983). New Intravenous Anesthetic Drugs: Etomidate and Midazolam. In: Stanley, T.H., Petty, W.C. (eds) New Anesthetic Agents, Devices and Monitoring Techniques. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anaesthesiology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6804-2_14

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