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Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Propofol Pharmacology

Real Life Pharmacology - Pharmacology Education for Health Care Professionals

Eric Christianson, PharmD; Pharmacology Expert and Clinical Pharmacist

Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine

5716 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Real Life Pharmacology podcast, I breakdown propofol pharmacology.



Propofol is a CNS depressant that is used for general anesthesia.



I discuss propofol infusion syndrome in this episode and what to look out for clinically.



Adding a benzodiazepine or opioid to propofol may have a synergistic effect and the propofol dose may need to be reduced.

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0:30.4

Hey, all, welcome back to the Real Life Pharmacology podcast. I'm your host, Eric Christensen, and I thank you so much for listening today.

0:38.3

As always, I want to remind you to go to real life pharmacology.com and subscribe to get the free 31-page PDF of the top 200 drugs.

0:49.3

So a great little study guide if you're going through nursing school, nurse practitioner school, pharmacy school, med school, for example.

0:58.1

So go definitely take advantage of that.

1:01.2

And let's get into the drug of the day today.

1:04.3

So that drug is going to be Propofal, which the brand name is Dipravam.

1:09.5

And you may hear this medication referred by its nickname as well.

1:15.4

And it's referred as milk of amnesia because the liquid for injection has a white color,

1:23.4

interestingly.

1:24.8

So if you're anything like me, when we think of history, I'm always intrigued

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