A simplified anesthesia procedure may enable more widespread use of preoperative testing to demonstrate the cause of airway obstruction in patients with severe sleep apnea, suggests a study.

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Procedural sedation and analgesia involve the use of one or more sedative and analgesic agents to relieve pain and anxiety and to ...

Do you provide sedation for your pediatric patients? If so, do you have the skills to rescue a child with apnea, laryngospasm, or airway obstruction? Can you perform successful bag/mask ventilation?

Many patients require sedation during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Ideally, procedural sedation minimizes the patient’s awareness and discomfort while maintaining the patient’s safety.

Treating acute upper airway obstruction in the clinical setting is complicated and requires managing a sometimes chaotic environment, understanding the potentially multiple causes of disease ...

Children born preterm who receive sedation or anesthesia for procedures outside of the operating room are almost twice as likely to experience adverse events compared with those born at term, and ...