ArticleCritical care (London, England)2014
Etomidate for anesthesia induction: friends or foe in major cardiac surgery?
Article in Critical care (London, England), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06068764 (Etomidate Versus Propofol As An Anesthesia Induction Agent For Patients Undergoing CABG Surgery, Assessing Hemodynamic Stability. A Single Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial.), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers.
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Etomidate Versus Propofol As An Anesthesia Induction Agent For Patients Undergoing CABG Surgery, Assessing Hemodynamic Stability. A Single Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of etomidate added to propofol target-controlled infusion in bidirectional endoscopy: A randomized clinical trial.World journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2025Trial
- Comparing Hemodynamic Responses to Diazepam, Propofol and Etomidate During Anesthesia Induction in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: a Double-blind, Randomized Clinical Trial.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2017Trial
- Recent progress in the development of etomidate analogues.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
- Etomidate: to use or not to use for endotracheal intubation in the critically ill?Journal of thoracic disease · 2015Article
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Abstract
Use of etomidate for anesthesia induction is still debated. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Heinrich and colleagues reported that etomidate for anesthesia induction had similar outcome in comparison with other drugs, in a specific population of 3,054 patients ahead of major cardiac surgery. For the authors, the similar outcomes for mortality and length of hospital stay add to the hemodynamic stability and the improved intubation conditions to support keeping etomidate in the emergency drugs armamentarium for induction of anesthesia in patients at risk of hemodynamic failure. This commentary reviews the results and implications of their study.
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