Pro: Propofol demystified: it is time to change the sedation paradigm. Am J Gastroenterol. 2004; 99 (7):1207–1208. [ PubMed ]Vargo JJ. Propofol may be safely administered by trained nonanesthesiologists. Pro: Propofol demystified: it is time to change the sedation paradigm. Am J ...
Propofol (Diprivan(TM); AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE) is a commonly used drug for the induction of general anesthesia in the ambulatory setting. With the availability of a new bisulfite-containing generic formulation of propofol, questions have arisen regarding its cost effectiveness and safety compare...
What Is Diprivan? Diprivan (propofol) Injectable Emulsion is asedative-hypnotic agent used to help you relax before and duringgeneral anesthesiafor surgery or other medical procedure. It is also used in critically ill patients who require a breathing tube connected to aventilator. Diprivan is availa...
The King of Pop's doctor, Conrad Murray, is on trial for involuntary manslaughter, but could propofol alone have caused MJ's death? Harvard anesthesiologist Beverly Philip explains what gives this drug such lethal potential
Murray made an effort to explain he had no idea when he signed up to be Michael Jackson’s personal physician (at a salary of $150,000 a month) that he would be expected to administer propofol—Jackson called it his “milk”—every single night. But he admitted that’s what he did ...
Propofol is one of the most commonly wasted drugs in the operating theatre. It is toxic to the aquatic environment, bioaccumulates up the food chain and is not…
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Propofol is a short-acting intravenous anesthetic agent suitable for induction and maintenance of general anesthesia as well as for procedural and intensive care unit sedation. As such it has become an unparalleled anesthetic agent of choice in many institutional and office practices. However, in addi...
The question that arises now is what might the effects of Propofol be on long-term patient outcomes and what may be done to mitigate such untoward effects? In 2016, Jiang et al. [28] published a study that analyzed the effects of inhaled anesthetic via the long-term fate mapping of ...
A team of researchers at Indiana University has tested the effects of propofol and ketamine on the brains of macaques as a means to better understand what happens when humans ingest the drugs. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Sc