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Ten studies were performed to examine the time course of arterial and venous thiopental concentrations following the administration of thiopental (4 mg X kg-1 over 3 min) for cerebral protection during carotid occlusion in nine patients undergoing elective carotid endarterectomy; in five patients the time course of EEG change was also studied. The arterial and venous thiopental concentrations were similar with no evidence of a sustained arterial-venous gradient. The average arterial concentration was 20.1 microgram X ml-1 +/- 10 (SD) at 2 min after thiopental, and fell rapidly to 13.0 micrograms X ml-1 +/- 3.2 at 5 min, 10.7 micrograms X ml-1 +/- 4.4 at 10 min and 6.2 micrograms X ml-1 at 30 min. After thiopental the EEG record showed an increase in delta activity and in four patients a burst suppression pattern was seen. The duration of burst suppression activity was variable (130 to 367 seconds) but in all instances cortical activity had returned to the pre-thiopental level by five to ten minutes. Thus concentrations of thiopental of 10-30 micrograms X ml-1 were associated with EEG burst suppression and both were seen only within the first five minutes after drug administration. In contrast the carotid artery was occluded for considerably longer (26 +/- 4) minutes. We conclude that, since there was no sustained arterial-venous gradient, either arterial or venous concentrations are adequate for the study of thiopental pharmacokinetics.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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