Barbituates are drugs. Experts classify them as depressants because people who abuse them get depressed to the point where their central nervous system (CNS) may not work at all. Commonly called ...

Objectives: To evaluate high-dose barbiturates as a second-tier therapy for pediatric refractory intracranial hypertension complicating severe traumatic brain injury. Design: This is a retrospective ...

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These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] The patients were 4 adult females, twenty to forty years old, admitted to the Los Angeles County Hospital with acute ...

BARBITURATES isolated from biological fluids and tissues are not sufficiently pure for characterization by crystal tests. Purification and separation, if one or more barbiturates are present in the ...

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Helium and barbiturates contributed to more deaths last year than ecstasy, cannabis, mephedrone and GHB, statistics have revealed. Deaths where barbiturates, a type of depressant, were implicated rose ...

In 36 children with severe TBI treated with high-dose barbiturates as a second-tier RICH therapy, 28% had control of RICH. Half with continued RICH died while 10% with control died during the hospital ...