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Patients are maintained at the same depth of anesthesia by infusion of either thiopental or propofol. A graph (not displayed) shows that the recovery time for thiopental is greater than propofol. Which of the following characteristics of thiopental, but not propofol, best explains the difference between these two drugs?

A) Distribution of thiopental into adipose tissue
B) First-order hepatic elimination of propofol
C) Saturable renal clearance of thiopental
D) Tolerance of propofol in the central nervous system
E) Zero-order metabolic elimination of thiopental


  #2

I can remember the graph

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  #5

"Which of the following characteristics of thiopental " only 2 of the answer choices talk about thipental and one of them talks about clearance, u dnt even need to know pharm to answer this Q.

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