Continuous noninvasive monitoring of
barbiturate coma in critically ill children using the bispectral index monitor.
MP was admitted to the pediatric ICU and placed into a
barbiturate coma.
BIS monitoring may be especially useful during neuromuscular blockade, mechanical ventilation,
barbiturate coma, and bedside procedures.
This 20-year-old woman presented with bloody diarrhea that progressed quickly to respiratory distress requiring intubation and to the development of status epilepticus, controlled only by a
barbiturate coma.
Inducing a
barbiturate coma helps decrease ICP and brain metabolism.