Editing Inhalational anesthetic (section)

==List of inhalational anaesthetic agents==

===Currently-used agents===
* [[Desflurane]]
* [[Isoflurane]]
* [[Nitrous oxide]]
* [[Sevoflurane]]
* [[Xenon]]

===Previously-used agents===
Although some of these are still used in clinical practice and in research, the following anaesthetic agents are primarily of historical interest in [[Developed country|developed countries]]:

* [[Acetylene]]
* [[Chloroethane|Chloroethane (ethyl chloride)]]
* [[Chloroform]]
* [[Cryofluorane]]
* [[Cyclopropane]]
* [[Diethyl ether]]
* [[Divinyl ether]]
* [[Enflurane]]
* [[Ethylene]]
* [[Fluroxene]]
* [[Halothane]] (still widely used in the [[developing world]] and is on the [[WHO Model List of Essential Medicines]])
* [[Methoxyflurane]] (still used currently as an [[analgesic]])
* [[Methoxypropane]]
* [[Trichloroethylene]]
* [[Vinyl chloride]]<ref name="pmid572591">{{cite journal |vauthors=Tamburro CH |title=Health effects of vinyl chloride |journal=Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine |volume=37 |pages=126–44, 146–51 |date=1978 |pmid=572591}}</ref><ref name="pmid20255056">{{cite journal |vauthors=Oster RH, Carr CJ |title=Anesthesia; narcosis with vinyl chloride |journal=Anesthesiology |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=359–61 |date=July 1947 |pmid=20255056 |doi=10.1097/00000542-194707000-00003 |s2cid=73229069 |url=https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/8/4/359/34257/ANESTHESIA-XXVII-NARCOSIS-WITH-VINYL-CHLORIDE|doi-access=free }}</ref>

===Never-marketed agents===
* [[Aliflurane]]
* [[Halopropane]]
* [[Norflurane]]
* [[Roflurane]]
* [[Synthane]]
* [[Teflurane]]