Propofol is a safe modern, non-barbiturate intravenous anesthetic induction agent that was introduced into clinical anesthesia in 1977. It has established its place in practice because of its many ideal characteristics; it causes rapid and smooth loss of consciousness and rapid recovery, making it an ideal agent for day-case procedures25,26 There is extensive use of propofol as an intravenous sedative for procedures such as endoscopy, electroconvulsive therapy, cardioversion and for longer term sedation in the intensive care unit.27,28 Propofol has useful antiemetic properties and is known to be anti-epileptic and antipruritic.29 Although propofol can cause pain on intravenous injection there are several strategies to reduce this problem.30 There are reports of rare fatalities associated with high doses of propofol and reports of pancreatitis after single doses.31,32