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?
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?
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.