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Safe sedation?

A controlled trial of “Megimated” amylobarbitone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Richard Fox
Richard Fox*
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals, London
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Death due to barbiturate overdosage has been an increasing problem, rising steadily in England and Wales from a death rate of 2 per million population in 1949 to 5 per million in 1958 (1). Of 2,044 consecutive fatal poisonings studied in Denmark between 1953 and 1959, over a quarter were due to barbiturates (2). 300 tons of barbiturate are consumed in the U.S.A. every year and acute poisoning with it in that country accounts for 1,500 deaths per year (3).

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Therapeutic Trials
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 456 , September 1962 , pp. 731 - 734
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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