Drug chirality in anesthesia

Richard B. Weiskopf, Carla Nau, Gary R. Strichartz*

*Corresponding author for this work
57 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The theoretical bases for therapeutic and toxic differences between chiral drug molecules are presented, and examples of local anesthetics, volatile anesthetics, and the intravenous anesthetic ketamine are critically reviewed.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAnesthesiology
Volume97
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)497-502
Number of pages6
ISSN0003-3022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002

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