Team develops potentially safer general anaesthetic

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) physicians has developed a new general anaesthetic that may be safer for critically ill patients. In the August issue of Anesthesiology, they describe preclinical studies of the drug called MOC-etomidate - a chemically altered version of an exiting anaesthetic - which does not cause the sudden drop in blood pressure seen with most anaesthetics or prolonged suppression of adrenal gland activity, a problem with the original version of the drug...

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