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Barbiturates

Pediatrics in Review, 1997
Barbiturate use by adolescents has increased gradually in the past several years, but few adolescents use this class of drugs regularly. Instead, these sedatives are used most often to treat unpleasant effects of illicit stimulants, to reduce anxiety, and to get "high".
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Barbiturate Detection in Oral Fluid, Plasma, and Urine

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, 2011
Background: Although current abuse of barbiturates is low compared with other classes of abused drugs, their narrow margin of safety, risk of dependence, and abuse liability remain a health concern.
D. Fritch, Kristen Blum, Sheena Nonnemacher, K. Kardos, A. Buchhalter, E. Cone   +5 more
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ADDICTION TO BARBITURATES AND THE BARBITURATE ABSTINENCE SYNDROME

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1950
Excerpt The purpose of this paper is to point out that chronic intoxication with barbiturates represents a true addiction—no matter how addiction is defined—and to describe the manifestations of ma...
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Aneurysms of the basilar artery treated with circulatory arrest, hypothermia, and barbiturate cerebral protection.

Journal of Neurosurgery, 1988
Complete circulatory arrest, deep hypothermia, and barbiturate cerebral protection are efficacious adjuncts in the surgical treatment of selected giant intracranial aneurysms.
Robert, Spetzler, Mark, Hadley, D. Rigamonti, Philip Carter, Peter A. Raudzens, Steven A. Shedd, E. Wilkinson   +8 more
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BARBITURATE INFUSION FOR INTRACTABLE INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION AND ITS EFFECT ON BRAIN OXYGENATION

Neurosurgery, 2008
OBJECTIVEBarbiturate-induced coma can be used in patients to treat intractable intracranial hypertension when other therapies, such as osmotic therapy and sedation, have failed.
H. I. Chen, N. Malhotra, M. Oddo, G. Heuer, J. Levine, P. Leroux   +5 more
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Relapse and Survival After Barbiturate Anesthetic Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus

Epilepsia, 1996
Summary: Purpose: Pentobarbital is standard treatment for refractory status epilepticus (SE) and is almost uniformly effective, but the morbidity of treatment and the mortality of refractory SE are high.
K. Krishnamurthy, F. Drislane
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Differentiating Between Dipolarity and Polarizability Effects of Solvents Using the Solvatochromism of Barbiturate Dyes

, 2008
Barbiturate dyes containing either a dipolar or polarizable chromophoric system have been synthesized and their solvatochromism investigated. The effect of specific and non-specific solvent interactions on the position of their UV/Vis absorption bands ...
Mirko Bauer, Anja Rollberg, A. Barth, S. Spange   +3 more
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BARBITURATES AND DRIVING

Accident Analysis & Prevention, 1976
Barbiturates are general nervous system depressants which are commonly used as sedatives and hypnotics. Approximately 4% of the adult population, 12% of high school students and 19% of college students have reported using barbiturates. The lack of controlled studies comparing barbiturate involvement in traffic accidents and in the at-risk population ...
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Hypothermia and barbiturate coma for refractory status epilepticus

Critical Care Medicine, 1984
Three pediatric patients with generalized status epilepticus unresponsive to therapy with conventional anticonvulsants were successfully treated with moderate hypothermia (30± to 31±C) and barbiturate coma with thiopental.
J. Orlowski, G. Erenberg, H. Lueders, R. Cruse   +3 more
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Influence of hypothermia, barbiturate therapy, and intracranial pressure monitoring on morbidity and mortality after near‐drowning

Critical Care Medicine, 1986
We retrospectively evaluated the clinical and pathologic effects of hypothermia and high-dose barbiturate therapy on hypoxic/ischemic cerebral injury after near-drowning in children.
D. Bohn, W. Biggar, C. R. Smith, A. Conn., G. Barker   +4 more
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