Minimum Alveolar Concentration–Awake of Xenon Alone and in Combination with Isoflurane or Sevoflurane - Concepedia

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Minimum Alveolar Concentration–Awake of Xenon Alone and in Combination with Isoflurane or Sevoflurane

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2000

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Takahisa Goto, Yoshinori Nakata, Yoshiki Ishiguro, Yoshinari Niimi, Kunio Suwa, Shigeho Morita

Abstract

The MAC-awake of xenon is 33% or 0.46 times its MAC. In terms of the MAC-fraction, this is smaller than that for N2O but greater than those for isoflurane and sevoflurane. Unlike N2O, xenon interacts additively with isoflurane and sevoflurane on MAC-awake.