Medically reviewed by Alexis Appelstein, DO Healthcare providers use conscious sedation (also called procedural or moderate sedation) to effectively manage medication dosing and allow the patient to ...

Introduction When I first started practicing gastroenterology, most of our endoscopy patients received 50 mg of meperidine and 2 mg of midazolam, and they did just fine. Not any more. More and more of ...

Procedural sedation is done usually done to eliminate pain and anxiety during routine medical and dental procedures. The mother, Ommettress Travis, of the girl, Diamond Brownridge told the WLS ...

Patient satisfaction with propofol-based sedation is either equivalent to or slightly better than a benzodiazepine/narcotic combination. 12 It is also highly desired by apprehensive patients who wish ...

The rate of patients who were without major periprocedural complications was 65.9% in the general anesthesia group and 67.4% in the procedural sedation group (RR, 1.02; 95% CI, 0.86-1.21; P =.80).

A variety of pain management options should be offered Patients who anticipate needing analgesia in addition to premedication and local anesthetics may be offered other options for pain management, ...

Previously, sedation was not used for endoscopies, but more recently, endoscopy under sleep sedation has been used to make the patient more comfortable during the procedure.