Pentobarbital

Pentobarbital is a barbiturate sold under the name Nembutal that Lundbeck markets as an epilepsy treatment.

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Pentobarbital, available for use since 1930, is used by doctors as a sedative in some surgeries, as a hypnotic for short-term treatment of insomnia and to control certain types of seizures, such as those associated with bouts of cholera, meningitis and an emergency state of epilepsy.

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Pentobarbital has already been used to execute prisoners in Ohio and Oklahoma.

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Sodium Pentobarbital, a drug which is used for assisted suicides.

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Pentobarbital, one of the three drugs set to be used to kill Davis, was bought from the Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck before it announced strict controls on the sale of the drug earlier this summer.

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Pentobarbital was designed to treat epileptic seizures, and is also sometimes used to euthanize animals.

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This medication is usually given to help ease children to sleep during sedation with Pentobarbital and used as needed to maintain comfort during painful procedures.

Sedation for Outpatients 2010

Pentobarbital (Brand name: Nembutal) - a sedative medication generally given intravenously to children over one year old.

Sedation for Outpatients 2010

States have been turning to pentobarbital to carry out executions since the manufacturer of another sedative announced it would not resume production in the U.S. Pentobarbital has been used this year to put at least 18 inmates to death in eight states.

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Pentobarbital already has been used for recent executions in Oklahoma and Ohio.

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