Orthoptics with Amobarbital

The Practice of Orthoptics

Repeated intracarotid amobarbital tests.

RATIONALE Our goal was to determine the frequency of repeated intracarotid amobarbital test (IAT) at our center and to estimate the retest reliability of the IAT for both language and memory lateralization. METHODS A total of 1,249 consecutive IATs on 1,190 patients were retrospectively reviewed for repeat tests. RESULTS In 4% of patients the IAT was repeated in order to deliver satisfactor...

Practical Orthoptics in the Treatment of Squint

SQUINT.?By K. Lyle, M.A., M.D., M.Chir. l^antab.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.;, ana S. Jackson. 1937. H. K. Lewis and Company, Limited, London. Pp. xiv plus 211 with 68 illustrations including 5 plates. Price, 12s. 6d. The early treatment of squint by exercises to abnormal retinal correspondence and suppression is perhaps new to many doctors in India. Although some ophthalmologists do not...

Neurobehavioral differences in superselective Wada testing with amobarbital versus lidocaine.

Four patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) underwent superselective Wada testing with intraarterial amobarbital and lidocaine before embolization. In all four patients, the use of lidocaine detected clinically significant neurologic deficits that amobarbital alone did not, likely because of the pharmacodynamic differences of the two agents. The use of lidocaine with amobarbi...

Tailored cognitive testing with provocative amobarbital injection preceding AVM embolization.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Transarterial embolization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) has been associated with postprocedural neurologic complications in 7-39% of patients. We sought to determine whether a method of targeted neurologic and cognitive testing during AVM embolization reduces the incidence of focal cognitive and other neurologic deficits associated with the procedure. ...