Self-administered methoxyflurane for procedural analgesia: experience in a tertiary Australasian centre (15 February 2016)

Summary

Methoxyflurane, an agent formerly used as a volatile anaesthetic but that has strong analgesic properties, will soon become available again in the UK and Europe in the form of a small hand-held inhaler. Gaskell et al. describe their experience in the use of inhaled methoxyflurane for procedural analgesia within a large tertiary hospital in New Zealand.