Acute Barbiturate Poisoning: Treatment with Modem Methods of Resuscitation

[On acute barbiturate poisoning (Clinical contribution)].

Barbiturate Poisoning Treated with Picrotoxin

Aortic Disease: Barbiturate Poisoning

jhd not give a history of having had rheumatic fever. I regarded it as likely that she had congenital anomaly of the aortic valve which had become calcified. She was next admitted to the B.R.I. in June 1962 when her principal complaint J^s that she had been made very uncomfortable by palpitations. The symptoms of her aortic stenosis had previously been heart failure with breathlessness and some...

Barbiturate blood levels found at necropsy in proven cases of acute barbiturate poisoning.

In order to determine whether blood barbiturate levels could be used to ascertain that death had been caused by barbiturate overdose, samples of blood from 128 subjects of coroners' necropsies were examined for barbiturate content. Sixty of these were well authenticated cases of barbiturate overdosage, and barbiturates were implicated, together with other factors such as alcohol and carbon mono...

The application of hemodialysis to the treatment of barbiturate poisoning.

Current methods of treatment of barbiturate poisoning, which consist of supportive measures aimed towards maintenance of life until the drug can be excreted or metabolized, have occasioned considerable dissatisfaction because of their lack of specificity. Ideal therapy must be directed toward either more rapid removal or accelerated detoxification of the barbiturate preparation. The closest app...