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Use of benzodiazepines in the management of eclampsia
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The benzodiazepines are the more recent psychotropic drugs which act mainly by depressing the reticular activating system and the basal ganglia of the brain without depressing the vital medullary centres.About:
This article is published in British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.The article was published on 1968-08-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eclampsia & Birth weight.read more
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Which anticonvulsant for women with eclampsia - evidence from the collaborative eclampsia trial
Lelia Duley,Guillermo Carroli,José M. Belizán,L Gonzalez,Liana Campodonico,Eduardo Bergel,P Taillades,Sarah Ayers,L Wincott,K Gallagher,K Fredrick,J Reynolds,S Adadevoh,Álvaro Nagib Atallah,K George,Adrian Grant,K Mahomed,S Mehta,F Mmiro,Jack Moodley,James P Neilson,S Sheth,Godfrey Ja Walker,Iain Chalmers,Rory Collins,S.P. Munjanja,Christopher W.G. Redman,Diana Elbourne +27 more
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Magnesium sulphate versus diazepam for eclampsia
TL;DR: Magnesium sulphate appears to be substantially more effective than diazepam for treatment of eclampsia.
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Benzodiazepines in the treatment of epilepsy. A review.
T R Browne,J. K. Penry +1 more
TL;DR: The anticonvulsant effect of benzodiazepines is reviewed, both on experimentally produced seizures and on epilepsy in man, including aspects of clinical pharmacology and toxicology.
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Placental transfer of diazepam and its disposition in the newborn
TL;DR: This poster presents a probabilistic procedure to assess the importance of maternal education in the development of breastfeeding and its applications in the field of women's health and maternity care.
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Use of benzodiazepines during pregnancy, labour and lactation, with particular reference to pharmacokinetic considerations.
TL;DR: Knowledge of the pharmacokinetic properties of the benzodiazepines is playing an increasingly important role in their use during pregnancy, labour and lactation, and only high clinical doses might be expected to exert a possible effect on the nursing newborn.
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Pharmacological and clinical studies on Valium (T.M.) a new psychotherapeutic agent of the benzodiazepine class.
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Toxemia of pregnancy: The hypertensive effect of acute experimental placental ischemia
Max Berger,Denis Cavanagh +1 more
TL;DR: A classification of toxemia of pregnancy based upon the condition which may cause placental ischemia is suggested, and it is evident that the vasopressor substances are not renal origin.
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The evolution of the treatment of eclampsia
TL;DR: Eclampsia is a major obstetric problem even today in many areas of Asia and in this country it is with the idea that I may be able to present before you in its proper perspective some of their problems, how the authors are meeting it and with what results.
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Sedation with rectal tri-brom-ethanol (avertin, bromethol) in the management of eclampsia.
J. Bruce Dewar,W. I. C. Morris +1 more
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The treatment of eclampsia; preliminary report on the present Rotunda treatment of eclampsia by soluble sodium thiopentone and concentrated salt-free dextrose solution, with particular reference to the control of convulsions.
TL;DR: The following remarks concern the treatment of established convulsive pregnancy toxaemia, but may be applied in some part towards the treatmentof the disease without convulsions (i.e. pre-eclampsia) .
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Which anticonvulsant for women with eclampsia - evidence from the collaborative eclampsia trial
Lelia Duley,Guillermo Carroli,José M. Belizán,L Gonzalez,Liana Campodonico,Eduardo Bergel,P Taillades,Sarah Ayers,L Wincott,K Gallagher,K Fredrick,J Reynolds,S Adadevoh,Álvaro Nagib Atallah,K George,Adrian Grant,K Mahomed,S Mehta,F Mmiro,Jack Moodley,James P Neilson,S Sheth,Godfrey Ja Walker,Iain Chalmers,Rory Collins,S.P. Munjanja,Christopher W.G. Redman,Diana Elbourne +27 more