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Chapter 4 - Total Intravenous Anesthesia in Disaster Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2020

By
Phillip Blum  and
Martin Graves
Edited by
Joseph McIsaac
Edited in association with
Kelly McQueen  and
Corry Kucik
Joseph McIsaac
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
Kelly McQueen
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Corry Kucik
Affiliation:
United States Navy
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Summary

The above famous critique of intravenous anesthesia occurred following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, where anesthesia folklore tells us more Americans died from the use of thiopentone than from the Japanese attack. However, in the same journal that published Halford’s statement there appeared a case study of the use of thiopentone in a shocked patient with a gunshot wound to her chest and upper abdomen.

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Essentials of Disaster Anesthesia , pp. 32 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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