Strategy to reduce the amount of propofol waste in the operating room

ScienceDaily
Oct 29, 2024, 12:08 pm100 pts
Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia. To maintain anesthesia, a continuous infusion of the agent via a separate syringe pump is the standard procedure for total intravenous anesthesia. However, this is not entirely sustainable: propofol produces about 45 percent of the drug waste in the…

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