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February, 2004
Outpatient Surgery Magazine
No Opioids, No Oxygen, No Fires
Re: “Preventing Surgical Fires” (December 2003). Your otherwise excellent story failed to mention the advantages of using BIS-monitored propofol ketamine (PK) anesthesia as a pre-emptive solution. Essential to PK technique, which provides the illusion of general anesthesia to the patient, is the avoidance of opioids, which eliminates the requirement of oxygen, an ignition source for fires.
Barry L. Friedberg, M.D.
Corona del Mar, CA
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