TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Anesthesia: Ketamine, Ether, and Halothane A1 - Iserson, Kenneth V. Y1 - 2016 N1 - T2 - Improvised Medicine: Providing Care in Extreme Environments, 2e AB - A group of anesthesiologists familiar with international disaster relief operations wrote, “There is a danger of the modern practitioner becoming an ‘anesthetic dinosaur,’ unable to survive except in a sophisticated technological environment.”1 Inexperience with ketamine, ether, and halothane, the anesthetics commonly used in developing countries, may come to haunt those trying to deliver inhalational anesthesia in austere circumstances. Ketamine is an easy and safe anesthetic to give, even by non-anesthetists; ether is extremely safe, portable, and deliverable by improvised means. Modern anesthetists often aren’t familiar with halothane. Therefore, a description of these three anesthetics will help clinicians deliver safe anesthesia. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1124428224 ER -