Alfentanil
Definition: Alfentanil, sold under the brand name Alfenta among others, is a potent, short-acting synthetic opioid analgesic drug used for anesthesia in surgery. It is an analogue of fentanyl with around one-fourth to one-tenth the potency, one-third the duration of action, and an onset of action four times faster than that of fentanyl. Alfentanil has a pKa of approximately 6.5, which leads to a very high proportion of the drug being uncharged at physiologic pH, a characteristic responsible for its rapid-on... source: Wikipedia
- ID
- 387560008
- ID date
- 13 Aug 2007
- Previous ID
- 3510511000001102
- Name
- Alfentanil