During the 10 yr studied, 778 TBI patients received mechanical ventilation for 2 days or more and 36 (5%) met study criteria. Ten (28%) patients had RICH controlled (ICP < 20 mm Hg) within 6 hours ...

For permission requests, please contact NEJM Reprints at [email protected] The patients were 4 adult females, twenty to forty years old, admitted to the Los Angeles County Hospital with acute ...

Barbiturates once enjoyed vast popularity as sedatives and sleep inducing agents. Over time their side effects led to more caution and at present these agents are seldom prescribed for insomnia and ...

TV Engineer Alan Adair, 30, unhappily divorced and tired of life, parked his car alongside Los Angeles’ Ballona Creek one evening and washed down a handful of barbiturate sleeping pills with milk.

These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless ...

This is a retrospective cohort of infants and children admitted to Primary Children's Medical Center (PCMC) from January 2001 to December 2010 who received high-dose barbiturate therapy for RICH ...