ACUTE BARBITURATE POISONING

[On acute barbiturate poisoning (Clinical contribution)].

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...

Haemodialysis in Severe Barbiturate Poisoning.

Barbiturate Poisoning Treated with Picrotoxin