(07) Inhalant Anesthetics

Question 1

1. 1. Isofluane produces a high degree of what?
2. 2. at anesthetic doses, both halothan and ketamine increase what?
3. 3. Halothane, at its MAC value, will produce anesthesia in about what percentage of all beagles?

Answer 1

1. muscle relaxation
2. intracranial pressure
3. 50%

Question 2

1. What property of an anesthetic agent contributes the most ot the rate of recovery from inhalant anesthesia?
2. What has the lowest blood to gas partition coefficient of the inhalant compounds discussed,

allowing it to do what?

Answer 2

1. blood solubilty
2. Nitric Oxide

saturate blood quickly

Question 3

1. What is the most potent inhalant anesthetic in producing unconciousness?
2. What are generally through to act to produce unconsciousness by interactions with ion channel coupled neurotransmitter receptors?
3. 7. The combination of nitrous oxide and methoxyflurane accomplish what?

Answer 3

1. Methoxyflurane
2. volatile anesthetics
3. more rapidly induce anesthesia