Abstract
INTRAVENOUS MEDICATIONS providing both amnesia and relief of pain have been available since the 1930s.1 Unfortunately, little was known of the hemodynamic or respiratory consequences when thiopental was universally administered to sailors injured during the attack on Pearl Harbor. References to the practice led to this agent being called the “ideal method of euthanasia in war surgery.”2 Fortunately, much has changed since this early application.
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