Etomidate and general anesthesia: the butterfly effect?

Anesth Analg. 2013 Dec;117(6):1267-9. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000003.

Authors

Matthieu Legrand¹, Benoît Plaud

Affiliation

¹ *Paris-Diderot University, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Burn Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis-Lariboisière; †Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Hôpital Lariboisière; and ‡Paris-Diderot University, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Groupe Hospitalier Saint-Louis-Lariboisière, Paris, France.

PMID: 24257373
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000003

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Anesthesia, Intravenous / adverse effects*
Anesthesia, Intravenous / mortality*
Anesthetics, Intravenous / adverse effects*
Cardiovascular Diseases / chemically induced*
Cardiovascular Diseases / mortality*
Etomidate / adverse effects*
Female
Humans
Male
Propofol / adverse effects*

Substances

Anesthetics, Intravenous
Propofol
Etomidate