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Comparison of propofol and thiopental as anesthetic agent for ECT therapy.

supplier of sodium thiopental, announced in January 2011 that it would cease the drug's production after Italy--where production was set to move--threatened to block exports if the drug ended up in capital punishment procedures.

Sodium thiopental requirement is decreased during pregnancy.

But since makers of sodium thiopental stopped selling it for use in executions.

Since that declaration, the U.K., Germany, and other countries have erected regulatory barriers to prevent pharmaceutical companies from exporting sodium thiopental to the United States.

fleck questions Arizona's rationing priorities; and Ross White questions the practice of lethal injection in the wake of the sodium thiopental shortage.

Molecular understanding of Abeta peptide interaction with isoflurane, propofol, and thiopental: nMR spectroscopic study.

And his lawyers say a drug he is taking for migraine may have created a resistance to thiopental which is used to put the condemned to sleep before two other lethal doses are administered.

Police have reportedly injected the remaining suspects with truth serum - the anesthetizing drug thiopental sodium has become increasingly common in India in the past five years despite criticism from lawyers and human rights groups.

The first drug, sodium thiopental, is an ultrashort-acting anesthetic agent.

Patients received a rapid-sequence induction of anesthesia using lidocaine, fentanyl, thiopental, and succinyl-choline.

He was originally indicted for 17 criminal cases, but prosecutors withdrew in October 2000 four cases of the illegal manufacture of thiopental, a barbiturate that is administered intravenously.

Induction was performed with either propofol (2 mg/kg) or thiopental (4 to 5 mg/kg) in combination with fentanyl (50 to 100 [micro]g) and succinylcholine (1 to 2 mg/kg) to facilitate intubation.