Year: 1968 Source: Clinical Toxicology, v.1, no.2, (June 1968), p.135-142 SIEC No: 19860781

The general priciples of intensive conservative treatment are reviewed for acute intoxication with drugs having marked central depressed action in overdose, whether or not said drugs are barbituric acid such as hemodialysis are then discussed with special reference to glutethimide intoxication, emphasizing the relationship of therapeutic procedures of this sort to the well-defined patterns of metabolism & excretion of glutethimide. 44 refs. (NBB)