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We report on the use of a subcutaneous infusion of diamorphine, hyoscine and midazolam in the terminal care of a child with a neurodegenerative disease. The technique was safe and effective, and provided good symptom relief including control of previously intractable seizures.
1. When administered to intact white mice, the central depressants-diphenhydramine, promethazine, chlorpromazine, gammahydroxybutyrate, gammabutyrolactone, hyoscine, and pethidine-produced sedation in small doses, but excitement and convulsions in higher doses. When given to mice pretreated with
The pharmacological properties of a phenothiazine derivative thioproperazine have been compared with those of chlorpromazine, and the modifications by some anti-Parkinsonian drugs of its actions on the central nervous system have been studied. Thioproperazine was less potent than chlorpromazine in
Scopolamine (Hyoscine), an anticholinergic compound is widely used for the prophylaxis and treatment of motion sickness and might be used with oxygen diving and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. We therefore decided to test the interaction of scopolamine with oxygen at high pressure. Thirty-six rats
Among 25 baboons, Papio papio, 2 consistently showed acute dystonic reactions, with mouthing, compulsive gnawing and limb and trunk dystonia, following the intravenous administration of neuroleptics and related drugs (haloperidol, 0-6-1-2 mg/kg; pimozide 0-5-2-5 mg/kg; chlorpromazine 5-25 mg/kg;
During 1984-1989, 19 Bedouin children, 4-8 years old, were hospitalized because of henbane plant (Hyoscyamus reticulatus) poisoning. There were 14 cases in the autumn, 3 in the spring and 2 in the summer. The most prominent signs were altered state of consciousness (including deep coma in 3) and