Acute barbiturate poisoning. About the biology

The acute barbiturate poisonings represent 20% of the whole medicinal poisonings, diagnosed in the university hospital of Casablanca during a year. Concerning 23 cases, the authors stress the different clinical, toxicological and therapeutic problems that the I.B.A. arise. They settle a relation between the rate of the barbiturics and the importance of the clinical symptoms. Being a result of a narrow collaboration of the university hospital and the school of Medicine, this study is a first approach to the organisation of a toxicological center likely to respond to the needs of Casablanca