The death of sodium pentothal: the rise and fall of an anesthetic turned lethal - Orkaby A, Desai SP.

For nearly a century, sodium pentothal was the undisputed king of anesthetics. Anesthesiologists were not, however, the sole consumers of pentothal, as psychiatrists used it to treat acute anxiety during psychoanalysis. The associated drug-induced inhibiti...
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