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1 From the Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
1. Under ether anesthesia there is an immediate fall in the serum potassium concentration which persists for at least thirty minutes after the anesthetic is stopped.
2. The serum potassium concentration returns to its normal level within five hours after anesthesia.
3. The serum potassium value for dogs is about 20 mgm. per 100 cc. and for guinea pigs, 34 mgm. per 100 cc.
Submitted on October 23, 1935