A new study published in the journal of the BMC Oral Health showed that for preschool-aged children receiving dental ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

In the contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point — that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as ...

Sedation in the context of palliative medicine is the monitored use of medications to induce varying degrees of unconsciousness to bring about a state of decreased or absent awareness (i.e.

A high proportion of time spent in medication-induced deep sedation in the ICU was associated with an increased risk of loss of independent living in an observational study. About a third of that ...

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 ...

Giving patients oral diazepam before they undergo cataract surgery, instead of running an intravenous (IV) drip with sedatives, can provide adequate, complication-free sedation, a single-center study ...

In a multicenter, double-blind trial, we randomly assigned mechanically ventilated adults with sepsis to receive dexmedetomidine (0.2 to 1.5 μg per kilogram of body weight per hour) or propofol (5 to ...

Medically induced comas differ from sedation in the level of unconsciousness, according to a release issued by the American Society of Anesthesiologists. According to the ASA, a medically induced coma ...

Sedation, together with analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis, is the end result of general anesthesia, which is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. Sedation, on its own, is ...

New research suggests that sedating patients before a nerve block needed to diagnose or treat chronic pain increases costs, risks and unnecessary surgeries, and sedation does nothing to increase ...