Alfentanyl

• Anesthetics
• Narcotics
• Analgesics
• Opiate Agonists
• ATC:N01AH02

• Alfenta
• Alfentanilum [Inn-Latin]
• Alfentanyl

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C₂₁H₃₂N₆O₃

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Alfentanyl MSDS

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416.517 g/mol

140.8 ^oC

34.6 mg/L

Solid

0.006

Solution; Injection

For the management of postoperative pain and the maintenance of general anesthesia.

Alfentanil is a synthetic opioid analgesic. Alfentanil interacts predominately with the opioid mu-receptor. These mu-binding sites are discretely distributed in the human brain, spinal cord, and other tissues. In clinical settings, alfentanil exerts its principal pharmacologic effects on the central nervous system. Its primary actions of therapeutic value are analgesia and sedation. Alfentanil may increase the patient's tolerance for pain and decrease the perception of suffering, although the presence of the pain itself may still be recognized. In addition to analgesia, alterations in mood, euphoria and dysphoria, and drowsiness commonly occur. Alfentanil depresses the respiratory centers, depresses the cough reflex, and constricts the pupils.

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Symptoms of overexposure include characteristic rigidity of the skeletal muscles, cardiac and respiratory depression, and narrowing of the pupils.

Humans and other mammals