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1 Department of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A procedure for the treatment of acute phenobarbital intoxication in dogs by hemoperfusion over anion exchange resins is described. Three hours after i.v. administration of 150 mg/kg of sodium phenobarbital, the dog's blood was pumped at 100 ml/min for one hour over a column containing 750 ml of Amberlite 402, a quaternary amine anion exchange resin. Hemoperfusion at an average arterial pH of 7.30 extracted an estimated 28% of the phenobarbital given. In both the in vitro and in vivo study, the percent extraction correlated significantly with the perfusion pH.
Submitted on August 4, 1969