title: Drug interactions and the clinical anaesthetist.
abstract: In clinical practice, anaesthetists encounter many patients who are on concurrent medication which may have the potential to interact with drugs used during anaesthesia. Many patients are receiving as many as a dozen drugs of various kinds, thus, increasing the risk of a drug interaction occurring. Unfortunately anaesthetists tend not to report drug interactions which occur during anaesthesia--especially those of a minor nature such as flushing--and hence, the true number of drug interactions is unknown. We have developed a chart indicating the nature of important interactions that the anaesthetist may encounter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthetics, UMDS, London, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Karalliedde
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D000777:Anesthetics / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004347:Drug Interactions; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000777:Anesthetics