
Episode 46: Obstetric Pharmacology and Fetal Assessment with Mike Hofkamp
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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What Is an Oxytocin Drug?
Do you down regulate or do you decrease the amount of lyocaine you give just pre-induction to a woman who's pregnant? You know it's not not necessarily I'll dose it's still one milligram per kilogram and I haven't had any any real problems as far as dosing up an epidural with lyocaine. All right anything else before we move on? No I think we can move on to the next topic oxytoxic drugs. Yeah so tell me what does that mean what's an oxytoxic drug? Oxytoxic drug is a drug that can cause the the uterus to contract That's how we think of it in obstetric anesthesia.
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