Overview – Anesthetic Drugs

00:01 Welcome to pharmacology by Lecturio. My name is Dr. Pravin Shukle.

00:06 We're going to cover anesthetic medications in this lecture.

00:11 Anesthetic medications undergo a number of treatment strategies. One of the treatment strategies is to use inhaled anesthetics. And another way to anesthetize someone is through intravenous anesthetics.

00:23 Inhaled anesthetics can be gases like nitric oxide.

00:27 Or they can be the volatile liquids that are shaped in liquid form but it eventually become a gas when are inhaled.

00:34 We also have these intravenous anesthetics. There's a large number of groups.

00:39 We can use barbiturates. We can use dissociatives drugs. We can use other miscellaneus drugs. We can use opioids.

00:46 We can use benzodiazepines. All of these are equally valid ways of anesthetizing a patient.