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

Dreaming is almost five times more common with propofol infusion than with midazolam in patients receiving spinal anesthesia with deep sedation, according to a study published in the April 2011 issue ...

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 ...

Remimazolam had a higher success rate in sedating patients undergoing outpatient oral surgery compared to midazolam, according to a study published on September 15 in the Journal of Oral and ...

Teen ED visits: 1 in 10 due to opioid, sedative abuse IV benzodiazepine is the preferred treatment for prolonged epileptic seizures in the ED, but it can be difficult for first responders to ...

Inhaled isoflurane demonstrated noninferior sedation efficacy compared with intravenous midazolam in critically ill children aged 3-17 years on mechanical ventilation, while also lowering opioid ...

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 ...

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 ...

The death of a Chicago patient may illustrate some perils involved in conscious sedation, according to Joel Weaver, D.D.S., Ph.D., president of the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists. The ...