Patients go to sleep in one arm-brain circulation time, about 30 seconds. To produce hypnosis, all induction agents must be able to reach their site of action, i.e. their 'effect site'.

Question: Where in the body is the effect site for induction agents?

Answer

Patient being induced

Patients go to sleep in one arm-brain circulation time, about 30 seconds. To produce hypnosis, all induction agents must be able to reach their site of action, i.e. their 'effect site'.

Question: Where in the body is the effect site for induction agents?

Answer: The brain

Question: In order to reach the brain, what physicochemical property must all these induction agents share?

Answer

Patient being induced

Patients go to sleep in one arm-brain circulation time, about 30 seconds. To produce hypnosis, all induction agents must be able to reach their site of action, i.e. their 'effect site'.

Question: Where in the body is the effect site for induction agents?

Answer: The brain

Question: In order to reach the brain, what physicochemical property must all these induction agents share?

Answer: They must all be very lipid-soluble to cross the blood-brain barrier.

Patient being induced