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Phenobarbital is a long-acting barbiturate used
to control convulsions caused by tonic-clonic
(grand mal), focal or psychomotor epileptic
seizures. It has been used for anxiety, insomnia
and gall bladder dysfunction or blockage. It is
the drug of choice for treatment of febrile
seizures and neonatal seizures in infants born
to opiate- or barbiturate-addicted mothers.
Additionally, it has been used prenatally and
postnatally to prevent and treat hyperbilirubinemia
(familial non-hemolytic, non-obstructive jaundice),
at birth to prevent intraventricular hemorrhage,
and diagnostically to distingui
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