In general a right-to-left intracardiac shunt or transpulmonary shunt will slow the rate of inhalational induction of anesthesia. This occurs because of a dilutional effect of shunted blood, which contains no volatile anesthetic, on the arterial anesthetic partial pressure coming from ventilated alveoli. [More…]
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