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Concentration-effect relationships of eltanolone given as a bolus dose or constant rate intravenous infusion to healthy male volunteers.

Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.
Anesthesiology (impact factor: 5.36). 07/1996; 84(6):1317-26. pp.1317-26
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ABSTRACT The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate concentration-effect relationships of the new steroid anesthetic eltanolone during recovery from a bolus dose and constant rate intravenous infusion in healthy male volunteers.
Ten subjects received a bolus dose of 0.75 mg/kg eltanolone over 20 s. A 2-h constant rate intravenous infusion of eltanolone was given to five subjects at a rate of 2 mg.kg-1.h-1 and to another five subjects at a rate of 3.5 mg.kg-1.h-1. Recovery performance was assessed as the time required to reach different end-points and by means of three different psychomotor tests.
A low interindividual variability was found in the serum concentration of eltanolone at the pharmacodynamic end-points during recovery. The Cp50 value for "eye opening" was 382 micrograms/L (95% confidence interval, 285-489) after a bolus dose corresponding to a median time of 16 min (range 8-25). After eltanolone infusion, the Cp50 value for "eye opening" was 507 micrograms/L (95% confidence interval, 425-605) and the corresponding median time was 21 min (range 8-25) in the low-dose group and 49 min (range 31-66) in the high-dose group. The Cp50 values at the same effect end-points in the bolus group were less than those in the infusion groups, probably because of insufficient equilibration time between serum and the effect compartment.
Recovery characteristics of eltanolone were predictable because of a relatively low interindividual variability in serum concentrations but with a slow blood:effect compartment equilibration.

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