Barbiturates

Barbiturates (a drug used to treat insomnia, seizures, and convulsions, and to relieve anxiety and tension before surgery)

Side effects

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Stevens-Johnson syndrome, color blindness, delirium, rhabdomyolysis, hyperammonemia,  …

syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone hypersecretion, Cerebellar ataxia, Fever of unknown origin, Somnolence, Pathologic nystagmus, Syncope, Fixed drug eruption

Parent Class

drug

Types, Examples

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Phenobarbital, sodium thiopental, Pentobarbital, Butalbital, Secobarbital,  …

Primidone, amobarbital, Barbitone, Methohexital, Allobarbital, Hexobarbital, Butabarbital, Talbutal, Cyclobarbital, Butobarbitone, Thiamylal, Mephobarbital

ICD Code

"T42.3"

Class

substance, drug, cause, medical concept

Cause of

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color blindness, Somnolence, rhabdomyolysis, delirium, Syncope,  …

syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone hypersecretion, Pathologic nystagmus, Cerebellar ataxia, Fever of unknown origin, hyperammonemia, Fixed drug eruption, Cytochrome P450 induction, Macrocytosis (erythrocyte), Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Mesh ID

"D001463"

Diseases DB id

"1231"

Contra-indications

Acute intermittent porphyria

Attributes

related to illicit drugs