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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Thiopentone"”.
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The impact of barbiturate therapy in children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)
… To address this, we evaluated the impact of thiopentone on physiological variables and outcome in children with severe TBI. METHODOLOGY: In this retrospective study we collected data on children (<13 years) with severe TBI who had undergone multimodality monitoring and received thiopentone to …
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The development of an in vivo nerve-muscle model in the rat : and an experiment "The interaction between rocuronium and thiopentone" to test the validity of the model
Experimentation involving small animals has, over the years, been of major importance in the development of our current understanding of nerve - muscle physiology. This dissertation describes the development of an in vivo model of the rat nerve interface at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the …
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The effects of anaesthetic agents on synapses of lymnaea stagnalis (L.)
… inhibition via GABAA receptors (eg. Na-thiopentone) or decreasing excitation via NIvIDA receptors (eg. ketamine). The aim of this thesis is to investigate the effects of both increased inhibition and decreased excitation at the synaptic level within an invertebrate model system, …
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A profile of children with traumatic brain injury admitted to the Red Cross War Memorial Children?s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Cape Town, South Africa, between 2015 and 2019
… seizures; 25 children (10.8%) required a Thiopentone infusion and 9 children (3.9%) a decompressive craniectomy. Common complications were post-extubation stridor (29/200 [14.5%]), hemiparesis (20/232 [8.6%]) and diabetes insipidus (15/232 [6.5%]). Median PICU stay was 3 (IQR 1-8.3) days, …
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Pharmacokinetics of propofol in cats
… various tissues (similar to the disposition of thiopentone which exhibits a slow total body clearance21. However it is possible that drug may accumulate within the body after prolonged infusions, resulting in delayed recovery times. This phenomenon is best described by calculating …