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ventilated with air will be considerably better than those breathing spontaneously using inhalational agents and a drawover technique. We chose vecuronium because of its excellent and almost unique storage qualities. Midazolam, because it is water soluble, must be the benzodiazepine of choice for most purposes at the present time and costs little more than promethazine and diazepam. Syringe pumps can be sophisticated but the more robust and simple ones cost about the same as the simplest vaporizer. Ketamine should be available in battle for its anaesthetic and analgesic properties. It is a considerable bonus that the emergence phenomena can be prevented by the concurrent use of midazolam.Total intravenous anaesthesia is now a possibility in battle and in the Third World. Safe and reliable drugs are obtainable a t reasonable cost and the simple, quantitative means of delivery of these drugs is now available.

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