Its effects are indistinguishable from secobarbital. Respiratory depression is a less serious effect of overdose than shock, low blood pressure, and water in the lungs. G. General anesthetics produce a sleep state accompanied by muscle relaxation, loss of reflexes and insensitivity to pain. Anesthetics are administered through inhalation or IV injection. Inhalants must be administered for as long as the effect is desired, as they are voided unchanged from the lungs.
Liquid forms have high lipid solubility and are quickly redistributed to other tissue.
Typically need high initial dose followed by lower maintenance doses. Thiopental is not analgesic at safe doses. The more common liquid anesthetics are pentobarbital, secobarbital and amobarbital. In normal doses it is non-toxic. At high doses it can mechanically block the intake of oxygen into brain cells.