• DOI:10.1016/0952-8180(90)90095-K
Corpus ID: 38834965

Potential toxicity from prolonged anesthesia: a case report of a thirty-hour anesthetic.

@article{Hogue1990PotentialTF,
  title={Potential toxicity from prolonged anesthesia: a case report of a thirty-hour anesthetic.},
  author={C. Hogue and D. Perese and C. Vacanti and T. Alston},
  journal={Journal of clinical anesthesia},
  year={1990},
  volume={2 3},
  pages={
          183-7
        }
}

C. Hogue, D. Perese, +1 author T. Alston

Published 1990

Medicine

Journal of clinical anesthesia

Selection of anesthetics for prolonged administration must include consideration of potential toxicity resulting from extended exposure. This report deals with a patient undergoing a 30-hour anesthetic that included nitrous oxide (N2O) and isoflurane (9.7 MAC-hours). Serial serum inorganic fluoride levels obtained in the perioperative period demonstrated a peak fluoride level of 12.6 mumols occurring 27 hours after isoflurane was discontinued. Although higher than previously reported fluoride… CONTINUE READING

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