[Use of barbiturates in posttraumatic comas at the mesencephalic level. Apropos of 38 cases].

Thirty-eight patients with brain injury and mesencephalic coma, or a Glasgow score of less than 5, were treated routinely with Thiopental administered by electric syringe for a mean duration of 4 days. Follow up review criteria were based on clinical computed tomography and electroencephalographic data, as well as results of monitoring of intracranial pressure and assay of blood barbiturate levels. Global results indicated a mortality of 55.

[Neuro-sedation and cranial C.-T. scan in infants and children (author's transl)].

Sixty-four infants and children under 14 years of age had a neuro-sedation, for a cranial C.-T. Scan.