title: An introduction to anesthesia-related medications.
abstract: Many articles written about anesthesia and anesthetic agents can be rather in-depth and somewhat dry (i.e., boring). This article is an attempt to avoid some of those pitfalls. This article is based almost entirely on the opinions of a CRNA with 14 years experience. It is intended as a brief overview. It is not my intention to write a comprehensive, technical description of anesthesia, because this has been done multiple times much better than I could. Hopefully, this will give a description of the types of drugs commonly used in anesthesia. At the conclusion of this article is a brief example of the "context" in which these drugs are used.
authors.affiliation: Twin Falls Clinic and Hospital, ID, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berg
mesh_terms: D000759:Adjuvants, Anesthesia / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing; D009719:Nurse Anesthetists / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D000759:Adjuvants, Anesthesia; D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation