1. Anterograde amnesia

This refers to when a person experiences loss of memory of any new experience done during the drug’s use of action, drugs such as triazolam, lorazepam and midazolam may cause this.

2. Effects of sedative hypnotics on sleep patterns

• Decrease the time it takes to fall asleep
• Decrease the duration of REM sleep
• Increase the duration of NREM phase 2 sleep
• Increase the amount of sleep in patients with <6 of sleep/night

3. Sedative hypnotics used as supplementary for anaesthesia

• Thiopental
• Midazolam
• Diazepam
• Lorazepam

4. Sedative hypnotics used for anticonvulsants

• Diazepam
• Lorazepam
• Clonazepam
• Clobazam
• Nitrozepam
• Phenobarbitone

5. Carbamates and BDs, muscle-relaxing effect

These drugs result in hyperpolarization and thus cause an inhibitory effect on the post synaptic neurons and the internueronal transmission resulting in skeletal neuromuscular junction depression and they cause muscle relaxation.

6. Sedative hypnotics on the respiratory and CS

RS: these drugs can cause the medulla respiratory center to be depressed, this depression is usually seen in patients with pulmonary disease

CVS: These drugs can cause depression of the medullary vasomotor, and is this depression is seen in patients with CVS problems and impairments which may lead to fatal problems