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© 2008, Armeen Ahmed, Vipin Dhama, Nitin Garg

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First Edition : 2008

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During our days as PG students of anaesthesiology, we were busy in OTs and ICU most of the time. Due to hectic schedule, it was difficult to spend long hours in library and read in details about the subject. It was even more difficult to remember the properties of various anaesthetic drugs. Later, when we reached in our final year of postgraduation, we found that the best way to memorize about drugs was to ‘COMPARE’ them. We started making comparative charts of various drugs of similar nature. After completion of our postgraduation, we realised that these notes can be condensed into a book. That is how this book came into existence. We have used comparative charts, line diagrams and points of clinical relevance for easy understanding of anaesthetic drugs. We do hope that the book will be used as an adjuvant to the reference books of anaesthesiology by the students.