This 1-year single-center, prospective, study included outpatients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy. Exclusion criteria included the administration of general anesthesia and endoscopy performed ...

Hubner and colleagues in the UK have recently described a simplified cardioversion service that has significantly reduced waiting times at their center. They have introduced intravenous midazolam ...

Study Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the frequency and severity of adverse effects, specifically emergence phenomena, experienced by patients receiving intravenous ketamine with or ...

Administering intranasal midazolam at doses of 0.4 and 0.5 mg/kg was found to be optimal for sedation in children undergoing laceration repair, resulting in no serious adverse events. Researchers ...

MELT-300 Statistically Superior for Procedural Sedation Compared to All Comparator Treatment Arms, Including Midazolam 3mg (P=0.0129) and Ketamine 50mg (P=0.0096) MELT-300 Treatment Arm 50% Less ...

Inhaled isoflurane sedation was on par with IV midazolam for children age 3 to 17 years in the ICU on mechanical ventilation in a randomized trial. Isoflurane also reduced time to extubation and ...

Intramuscularly or intravenously for preoperative sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia; Intravenously as an agent for sedation/anxiolysis/amnesia prior to or during diagnostic, therapeutic or endoscopic ...

Question: I am going to have minor surgery at the hospital for the first time. They will use local anesthesia and IV medications to make me drowsy. This may sound silly, but I am concerned about ...

Practice guidelines for sedation and analgesia may vary in different regions of the world. The American Society of Anesthesiologists has developed such guidelines for use by physicians who are not ...