Nicholas J. Sarlis, Christian A. Koch
We read with interest the contribution by Dr. Kostopanagiotou and colleagues describing the differential impact of volatile and intravenous anaesthetics on select hormonal and immune parameters of the stress response in the swine. We would like to highlight earlier human data of ours (some of which unpublished to date) as well as from others that are pertinent to this interesting line of research and generally supportive of the authors’ conclusions …