Can you give me information of Sleep treatment called Narcosis that keeps a pers!
Question: This was a treatment I knew about where a person was kept asleep for three weeks by having to take sodium namital sleeping tablets constantly. Why was this treatment used and what was it supposed to achieve in improving health of a nervous person put in a mental hospital. Used in the 1960 's
Answers: This was a treatment I knew about where a person was kept asleep for three weeks by having to take sodium namital sleeping tablets constantly. Why was this treatment used and what was it supposed to achieve in improving health of a nervous person put in a mental hospital. Used in the 1960 's
It's a barbiturate-induced coma, where the patient is kept asleep for long periods with thiopentone. I'm not sure about its use in psychiatry but we used it years ago for patients with serious head injuries, to keep the intracranial pressure from rising until the swelling of the brain settled, however, it was shown not to improve their outcome so it lost popularity. Sometimes they would be kept in coma and on a ventilator for 2-3 weeks. The last time I saw it used was about 1 year ago in a patient with eplilepsy, who would not stop fitting (status epilepticus) despite large doses of anti-convulsant drugs. They were put into a barbiturate coma for 24 hours and woke the following day seizure-free. I believe it has become popular in some heroin detox programmes, as the patient is put to sleep for a few days until the worst of the withdrawal symptoms have passed. Hope that helps
My mother had this....supposedly to help with a nervous breakdown and severe stress. Towards the end of the 60s. She said that it helped her.
I don't know much about it though.
I'd love to have a sleep for 3 weeks! Sounds like fun!