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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | The taste of intravenous thiopentone |
Author: | Nor, N. Fox, M.A. Metcalfe, I. Russell, W. |
Citation: | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 1996; 24(4):483-485 |
Publisher: | AUSTRALIAN SOC ANAESTHETISTS |
Issue Date: | 1996 |
ISSN: | 0310-057X 1448-0271 |
Statement of Responsibility: | N.B.M Nor, M.A. Fox, I.R. Metcalfe, W.J. Russell |
Abstract: | Patients sometimes notice an onion or garlic taste before losing consciousness with thiopentone. An assessment of 113 patients revealed that 42% of patients noticed this taste. The effect was observed less in older patients. There was no statistically significant difference in the incidence between men and women. Premedicated patients had a lower incidence, but this was explained by the greater proportion of older patients receiving a premedication. If the taste effect of thiopentone is genetically determined then it is a different gene to thiocarbamate which has about 75% tasters. |
Keywords: | Humans Allium Garlic Plants, Medicinal Thiopental Anesthetics, Intravenous Premedication Injections, Intravenous Incidence Taste Aging Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Middle Aged Child Female Male |
Description: | Publisher's copy made available with the permission of the publisher © 1996 Australian Society of Anaesthetists |
DOI: | 10.1177/0310057x9602400412 |
Published version: | http://www.aaic.net.au/Article.asp?D=1995165 |
Appears in Collections: | Anaesthesia and Intensive Care publications Aurora harvest 5 |
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