Paraldehyde in Obstetrics

Intramuscular Paraldehyde

Effect of Intramuscular Paraldehyde in Chorea

P., Hindu female child, aged 9 years, was admitted to the Children's Ward. Complaints :?Choreic movements, duration 10 days. On examination.?Violent choreic movements involving the whole body. Temperature normal, pulse rate 90, and irregular respiratory movements with an average rate of 20 per minute. Tonsils enlarged and epitrochlear glands palpable. Tendon jerks diminished. Abdominal reflex l...

Potentiation of Paraldehyde Hypnosis by Tolbutamide.

Beaser (1958) has recorded that prior administration of tolbutamide produces an intolerance to alcohol in the form of hot flushes. Disulfiram produces such an intolerance in a more marked· way. Keplinger and· Wells (1957) have reported that disulfiram prolongs the hypnotic effect of paraldehyde in mice. Hence it is possible that tolbutamide may have some action on paraldehyde anaesthesia analog...

General Obstetrics and Gynecology: Obstetrics

Objective: We tested if fetal pulse oximetry in addition to electronic fetal monitoring (CTG) and scalp blood sampling improves the accuracy of fetal assessment and allows safe reduction of operative deliveries ( 50%) and scalp blood sampling ( 50%) performed because of nonreassuring fetal status. Study design: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 146 patients with term pregnancies in...

Obstetrics

The prevention and treatment of post-partum hemorrhage is a subject of never-failing interest to the practitioner, and in view of the sudden and frequently fatal catastrophe which may ensue as the result of its occurrence, every attempt to suggest new or improved methods for either its prevention or cure demands careful examination. Stanmore Bishop,1 as the result of an article on this subject,...