Description
Seconal (Secobarbital sodium)
Seconal (Secobarbital sodium) (promoted by Eli Lilly and Company for the treatment of a sleeping disorder, and in this manner by different organizations as portrayed underneath, under the brand name Seconal) is a short acting barbiturate subordinate medication that was protected in 1934 in the United States. It has sedative, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, narcotic, and trancelike properties. In the United Kingdom, it was known as quinalbarbitone. It is the most every now and again utilized medication in doctor helped suicide inside the United States.
Secobarbital is viewed as an outdated narcotic trancelike (dozing pill), and thus, it has to a great extent been supplanted by the benzodiazepine family. Seconal was generally mishandled, referred to in the city as “red demons” or “reds”.
Indications
Secobarbital is indicated for:
- Treatment of epilepsy
- Temporary treatment of insomnia
- Use as a preoperative medication to produce anaesthesia and anxiolysis in short surgical, diagnostic, or therapeutic procedures which are minimally painful.
