Why Are People Vaping an Anesthetic? The Strange Rise of “Zombie Vapes”
You buy a vape. You inhale. And the drug you’re inhaling is normally used to put people under anesthesia. A recent case report out of Singapore describes two young men who had been using vapes containing etomidate, a short acting anesthetic drug normally given intravenously for things like general anesthesia, rapid sequence intubation, and procedural …