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Brevital Sodium

Generic name: Methohexital sodium

FDA application holder: PH Health

Strengths and generic versions Official label

Official data, not advice

Everything here comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): the NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the official labels and recall reports; pharmacy costs come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Each fact shows its source and date.

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At a glance

1Strengths and forms
0Same medicine, other names
1960FDA approval
0Recalls (FDA reports)

Quick answers

What is Brevital Sodium?
Brevital Sodium is a brand name of Methohexital sodium, a prescription medicine. The FDA NDC Directory lists 1 Brevital Sodium product in 1 strength and form.
Who makes Brevital Sodium?
PH Health holds the FDA application for Brevital Sodium (NDA011559, approved June 27, 1960).
Is there a generic or store brand of Brevital Sodium?
Other products of Methohexital sodium are listed with the FDA, but none in exactly the same strength and form as a Brevital Sodium product.
Has Brevital Sodium been recalled?
No recall linked to Brevital Sodium products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports we use.

What Brevital Sodium is

Each Brevital Sodium product as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, by active ingredient, strength and form, with its official label. “Same medicine, other names” counts the other products with exactly the same active ingredients, strength and form (generic versions, store brands and other brands); inactive ingredients can differ.

Methohexital sodium · prescription medicine

Strength and formProduct namesSame medicine, other namesLabel
methohexital sodium 500 mg
injection, powder, lyophilized, for solution (intramuscular, intravenous, rectal)		 Brevital Sodium None listed DailyMed

Its page lists every product and company, the FDA label’s uses and boxed warning, approvals, shortages and recalls: Methohexital sodium →

FDA approval

  • NDA: New Drug Application: how a new (usually brand-name) medicine is approved.
FDA applications of Brevital Sodium products (Drugs@FDA)
ApplicationHolderFirst approvedProducts
NDA011559PH HealthJune 27, 19601

Companies that list Brevital Sodium

The company named on the package (holder, repackager or distributor), as listed in the FDA NDC Directory, with its number of Brevital Sodium products.

Recalls

No recall linked to Brevital Sodium products (by their NDC code or label) appears in the FDA enforcement reports.

Sources

  1. NDC Directory (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  2. Drugs@FDA (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  3. Drug labeling (SPL, openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 30, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  4. Drug recall enforcement reports (openFDA) — U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), FDA data exported October 27, 2026, retrieved October 31, 2026
  5. NADAC (National Average Drug Acquisition Cost) 2026 — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), data.medicaid.gov, list of November 4, 2026, retrieved November 7, 2026

Which names get a brand page: a name the NDC Directory lists for a medicine, held by one company (the FDA application holder, or the company named on most of its products), that is not just a description, and that is not the only product of its medicine.

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