ABSTRACT
This overview of rapid inductions covers to varying degrees the definition of rapid and instantaneous inductions, pros and contraindications for use, physiology of rapid inductions, prerequisites for a rapid induction from the patient's perspective and the clinician's, ethics, mechanisms underlying most rapid inductions, a foray into stage hypnosis as it pertains to rapid inductions, similarities and differences to clinical uses, examples of rapid inductions, and suggestibility testing as inductions. Feasible current research is used to underscore the presented concepts. There is, however, a dearth of information in the research pertaining specifically to rapid inductions.
