Barbiturates are synthetic drugs used in medicine to depress the central nervous system (CNS). The effects of barbiturates range from mild sedation to coma, with their indications ranging from ...

PATIENTS requiring a barbiturate with less prolonged action but of duration sufficient to maintain action for four to six hours generally should be given amobarbital (Amytal) or pentobarbital ...

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 ...