The withdrawal process must be carefully monitored because barbiturate or alcohol detoxification can be life-threatening. |
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Light anesthesia is induced using a short-acting barbiturate, usually methohexital IV followed by succinylcholine IV for muscle relaxation. |
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The third measure, polydrug use, is the sum of hallucinogen, amphetamine, barbiturate, cocaine, and heroin use. |
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A wheelchair-bound paraplegic in constant pain sipped, through a straw, some water containing the barbiturate. |
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In the early 1940s, it became customary to anaesthetize patients with barbiturate injections. |
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If Nozinan is administered with a barbiturate or narcotic, the doses of the latter must be reduced by at least one-half. |
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Convulsion should be controlled by careful administration of diazepam or short-acting barbiturate, repeated as necessary. |
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In this experiment, human volunteers consistently underestimated their performance impairment after acute administrations of triazolam, but not pentobarbital, a barbiturate. |
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Oklahoma turned to pentobarbital, another barbiturate, but this drug also became hard to locate. |
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Gastric lavage soon after the drug is ingested may remove a sufficient amount of the barbiturate to allow recovery. |
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A barbiturate overdose administered by a veterinarian is also an acceptable form of euthanasia. |
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Pentobarbital, a short-acting barbiturate, has also been used for pre-medication in anaesthesia. |
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The inquest heard Dr Iqbal first prescribed the barbiturate Seconal for the princess in July 1999 after another patient told him she needed the drugs. |
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Police discovered ten bottles of barbiturate and amphetamine capsules plus some tincture of Opium in front of the offices in a plastic carrier bag. |
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To induce a coma, an anesthesiologist typically infuses a patient with increasing doses of the barbiturate pentobarbital while monitoring her brain waves with electrodes. |
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Alcohol itself is a depressant, therefore combining it with a barbiturate can depress the nervous system to such an extent that it ceases functioning altogether. |
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It is impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the number of chronic barbiturate users and barbiturate addicts in Canada, but it has been estimated that the number exceeds that of opiate addicts several times over. |
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The patient is given an anti-sickness drug 30 minutes before the lethal dose of barbiturate. |
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Withdrawal seizures in jail from alcohol or barbiturate withdrawal were a common reason. |
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My clinical experience tells me that barbiturate prescribing is decreasing. |
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The fact that the Judicial Police Office did not feel involved, led to the proliferation of compassionate prescriptions and the flooding of the West African markets by barbiturate products and drug precursors. |
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So why the fascination with a life that, for all the diversions through tinsel town, stretched from miserable foster homes to barbiturate overdose? |
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The agents of the first real drug craze to hit Britain, purple hearts were the original mother's little helpers: a combination of speed and barbiturate that calmed you down even as they zizzed you up. |
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Diazepam, a benzodiazepine utilized mainly as an anxiolytic, and phenobarbital, a barbiturate mainly used as an anti-epileptic, are the most widely consumed psychotropic substances. |
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Investigators also discovered a short-acting barbiturate called butalbital in one person and a component of Vicodin, called acetaminophen, in six people. |
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The drugs, a powerful barbiturate called Pentobarbitone Sodium, are used by vets and RSPCA staff to put animals to sleep and doctors warned could be lethal if taken by people. |
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