| That's exactly what I was going to bring up with this. As a doctor I just chuckled when it got to here > Xenon is considered “the perfect anesthetic” for 5 reasons: > It’s extremely fast-acting — xenon gas kicks into full effect within seconds > It wears off quickly — once the gas is removed, normal consciousness comes back within a minute or two > It doesn’t interact with other drugs > It leaves no lasting side effects or toxicity > The anesthetic state xenon induces is extraordinarily powerful The vast majority of drug incompatibilities are not a result of the physical interactions between the molecules. It's the undesirable effects that they exert in tandem on physiology. A vasodilator and a negative inotrope don't have to chemically react with each other to give a patient a very bad time. I will acknowledge that xenon does appear to have interesting effects, but nobody should be base their health and safety on what the author has written. Their analysis on its safety is far far far too superficial to be worth anything. |