Meanings of sodium thiopental in English

A third option, he said, would entail going back to sodium thiopental.

Last year, the UK banned the sale to the US of sodium thiopental.

All but one of the 35 US states that carry out executions used sodium thiopental.

Before 2011, several states used the anesthetic sodium thiopental as part of their lethal injections.

But sodium thiopental is now extremely difficult to purchase.

We have compared propofol and sodium thiopental in two groups of 20 women undergoing curettage.

The only manufacturer of sodium thiopental in the United States, Hospira Inc, halted production last year.

The sodium thiopental, administered first, is an anesthetic.

The most common lethal injection drug was the anaesthetic sodium thiopental, used with pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride.

The eight include pentobarbital and sodium thiopental -the two drugs on which almost all American executions currently depend.

However, two states use sodium thiopental alone as it can kill on its own if used in high dosage.

The fast-acting anesthetic was nearly three times as potent as sodium thiopental, the anesthetic administered to inmates during lethal injection.

Other states use a massive dose of barbiturate alone -but in either case sodium thiopental or pentobarbiatal are essential to the process.

Controversy over Tennessee's three-drug lethal injections and similar protocols in other states follow the withdrawal of the drug sodium thiopental by its US manufacturer.

Drug manufacturer Hospira has cut off supplies of sodium thiopental, which had been used as a sedative in a three-drug cocktail for U.S. executions.

The administrative change was allegedly "due to the unavailability of sodium thiopental," one of the three injections usually used to kill inmates.