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Edited by T. Andrew Bowdle, Akira Horita, and Evan D. Kharasch. 779 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1994. $99. ISBN 0-443-08878-0.

To create a single source of information on the basic and clinical pharmacology of anesthetic drugs, the editors invited 47 experts to write 33 chapters. The resulting book has nine sections, each of the first seven of which deals with a class of drugs: opioids, local anesthetics, benzodiazepines, intravenous induction agents, ketamine, neuromuscular blocking agents, and inhaled anesthetics. Each section contains three or more chapters on molecular or receptor pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and clinical applications. The concluding two sections deal with anesthetic adjuvants and emerging concepts.

The section on adjuvants includes a chapter on antiemetic agents written from an anesthetic rather . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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