and commentary also appear in ACP Journal Club and a modified version of the abstract appears in Evidence-Based Nursing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For correspondence: Dr K Prasad, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. [email protected] Source of funding: no external f...

1. After intravenous administration to 19 subjects, aged 18-95 years, plasma diazepam concentrations were measured over 160 h. Plasma protein binding of diazepam was also measured in each subject. 2. The terminal plasma half-life of diazepam ranged from 15.0 to 125 h and was positively correlated with age (r = 0.797). Total plasma diazepam clearance was not correlated with age (r = -0.017). 3. ...

Multicolor fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to investigate the induction of aneuploidy during meiosis in young adult male mice treated with chemicals chosen for the EU sponsored aneuploidy project (acrylamide, colchicine, diazepam and thiabendazole). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the frequency of aneuploid sperm induced by each of these chemicals by sperm FISH. ...

OBJECTIVE Acute seizure attack is a stressful experience both for health care personnel and parents. These attacks might cause morbidity and mortality among patients, so reliable methods to control the seizure preferably at home should be developed. This study was performed to measure the time needed to control seizure attacks using intranasal midazolam compared to the common treatment (intrave...

The clinical management of tetanus poses a difficult therapeutic problem to physicians everywhere. Mortality from the disease remains high even in those medical centres endowed with the best facilities currently available. In many developing countries where the disease is prevalent, and medical services are inadequate for local needs, mortality figures are alarmingly high, especially among case...

BACKGROUND/AIM Diazepam is a benzodiazepine anxyolitic. Metabolism of diazepam takes place in liver which generates pharmacologically active metabolites N-desmethyldiazepam, temazepam and oxazepam. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the method of liquid chromatographymass spectrometry (LC-MS) for separation and determination of diazepam and its active metabolites in the serum of ...

Protracted administration of diazepam elicits tolerance, whereas discontinuation of treatment results in signs of dependence. Tolerance to the anticonvulsant action of diazepam is present in an early phase (6, 24, and 36 h) but disappears in a late phase (72-96 h) of withdrawal. In contrast, signs of dependence such as decrease in open-arm entries on an elevated plus-maze and increased suscepti...

Abstract Objective: This study evaluates the role of oral sedation, using 5 mg diazepam, on postoperative sequelae (Pain, trismus and swelling) following impacted mandibular third molar surgery. Materials methods: is a randomised control involving 100 patients whose anxiety levels were assessed with Modified Dental Anxiety Scale (MDAS) just before drug administration thirty minutes after admini...

beta-Carboline-3-carboxylic acid ethyl ester (beta-CCE) dose-dependently potentiated psychological-stress induced analgesia (PSY-SIA), and the effect was reversed by diazepam. Concurrent exposure to PSY stress or concomitant treatment with beta-CCE blocked the development of analgesic tolerance to morphine; the effect of PSY stress was antagonized by diazepam, and that of beta-CCE was reversed ...

Methods: Forty Mice were randomly allocated into 4 equal groups; control, PTZ, diazepam (4mg/kg) and ivabradine (10 mg/kg) groups. Kindling model was produced by repeated i.p. administration of PTZ (40mg/kg), every other day for 9 days. Repeated PTZ treatment progressively increased the seizure score with the maximum score reached on day 9. Diazepam and ivabradine were administered intraperiton...