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isoflurane
Sign in to saveAlso known as Compound 469, Forane, Aerrane, 1-chloro-2,2,2-Trifluoroethyl difluoromethyl ether, Forene, Isoflurano, Isofluranum
Isoflurane, sold under the brand name Forane among others, is a halogenated ether used as a general anesthetic. It can be used to start or maintain anesthesia; however, other medications are often used to start anesthesia, due to airway irritation with isoflurane. Isoflurane is a inhalational anesthetic given via inhalation.
Key facts
- Drug.Verifiedfields
- changed
- Drug.Watchedfields
- changed
- Drug.verifiedrevid
- 443883276
- Drug.image
- Isoflurane.svg
- Drug.image_class
- skin-invert-image
- Drug.width
- 150
- Drug.image2
- Isoflurane-3D-vdW.png
- Drug.image_class2
- bg-transparent
- Drug.width2
- 150
- Drug.tradename
- Forane, others
- Drug.DailyMedID
- Isoflurane
- Drug.pregnancy_AU
- B3
- Drug.routes_of_administration
- Respiratory
- Drug.class
- Inhalational anesthetic
- Drug.ATC_prefix
- N01
- Drug.ATC_suffix
- AB06
- Drug.legal_BR
- C1
- Drug.legal_UK
- POM
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Chemical data
- Formula
- C3H2ClF5O
- Molecular weight
- 184.49 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- 2-chloro-2-(difluoromethoxy)-1,1,1-trifluoroethane
- SMILES
- C(C(F)(F)F)(OC(F)F)Cl
- InChIKey
- PIWKPBJCKXDKJR-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 2.1
- Polar surface area
- 9.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 6
- Formal charge
- 0
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Medical uses
- Mechanism of action
- Adverse effects
- Elderly
- Anesthetic physical properties
- History
- Environment
- Veterinary use
- References
- External links
Isoflurane, sold under the brand name Forane among others, is a halogenated ether used as a general anesthetic. It can be used to start or maintain anesthesia; however, other medications are often used to start anesthesia, due to airway irritation with isoflurane. Isoflurane is a inhalational anesthetic given via inhalation.
Isoflurane was approved for medical use in the United States in 1979. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “isoflurane” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.