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Inducing catatonic patients to eat with daily administration of amobarbital sodium
J L Lewis1, A B Santos, E P Knox
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
Southern Medical Journal
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
Intravenous amobarbital sodium can facilitate food ingestion by immobile catatonic patients. We have described a case in which this technique was used, citing its advantages over tube feedings.