Neonatal tetanus treated with high dosage diazepam.
Open Access
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 53 (9) , 737-739
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.53.9.737
Abstract
The combination of continuous intravenous infusion of diazepam (20--40 mg/kg per day) and intragastric phenobarbitone (10--15 mg/kg per day in 4 divided doses) was used to treat 19 cases of neonatal tetanus. Mortality was 2/19 (11%). This regimen was considered to have reduced the mortality and the need for artificial ventilation. The main side effects encountered were severe drowsiness, coma, and apnoeic episodes which were reversible when the level of diazepam was reduced.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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