SUFENTAMED

This brand name is authorized in Tunisia

Active ingredients

The drug SUFENTAMED contains one active pharmaceutical ingredient (API):

1 Sufentanil
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Sufentanil is a synthetic opioid analgesic drug approximately 5 to 10 times as potent as its parent drug, fentanyl, and 500 times as potent as morphine. Structurally, sufentanil differs from fentanyl through the addition of a methoxymethyl group on the piperidine ring (which is believed to reduce duration of action), and the replacement of the phenyl ring by thiophene. The main use of this medication is in operating suites and critical care where pain relief is required for a short period of time. It also offers properties of sedation and this makes it a good analgesic component of anesthetic regimen during an operation

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Medicine classification

This drug has been classified in the anatomical therapeutic chemical (ATC) classification system as follows:

ATC code Group title Classification
N01AH03 Sufentanil N Nervous system → N01 Anesthetics → N01A Anesthetics, general → N01AH Opioid anesthetics
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Authorization and marketing

This drug has been assigned below unique identifiers within the countries it is being marketed:

Country Identification scheme Identifier(s)
Country: TN Direction de la Pharmacie et du Mรฉdicament Identifier(s): 9093771H

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