Fluothane in obstetrical anaesthesia

Obstetrical epidural anaesthesia in remote hospitals.

In this issue of the Journal, Dr. Orser describes the experience with obstetricaL epidural anaesthesia in a smalL (40 beds), remote Canadian Hospital staffed by family practitioners. ~ Over a ten year period, seven per cent of obstetric patients received an epidural anaesthetic administered by one of nine different anaesthetists who had six months or less of formal anaesthesia training. Dr. Ors...

The impurities in Fluothane: their biological properties.

Fluothane (halothane BP), one of the purest anaesthetics, contains traces of some impurities amounting to a total of 005 per cent w/w, none of them exceeding 001 per cent w/w. Once these impurities had been identified they were synthesized and tested for anaesthetic activity and toxicity. The results of these experiments showed that most of these impurities have low toxicity but Fluothane conta...

Social drug use in the parturient: implications for the management of obstetrical anaesthesia.

Maternal use of social drugs in pregnancy continues to increase--worldwide. Although a great deal has been learned regarding the implications of illicit drug abuse in pregnancy (cocaine, amphetamines, hallucinogens), the use of social drug in pregnancy has received far less attention. This article reviews the consequences of the social drug use in pregnancy including ethanol, tobacco and caffei...

Clinical evaluation of methoxy-flurane in obstetrical anaesthesia: a report on 500 cases.

A Clinical Comparison of Fluothane ~nd

/ O" rather an attempt to compare the two a~ents by carefully anal)~smg the results of the routine use first of Fluothane then of the az~?otrope. There has been some eontrovers over the merit of adding ethelr to Fluothane. Hudon, Jaeques__and Boivin 1 suggested that by adding ether to prochaee respiratory and myocardial stimulation inany of the disadvantages of Ft~othane could be remedied. Thei...