The risk for incident delirium in older patients who underwent hip fracture repair was not significantly reduced with limited sedation levels, according to a recently published article in JAMA Surgery ...

Gastric endoscopy patients who use cannabis require higher levels of sedation than non-users, research presented at Digestive Disease Week on May 21 found. Researchers studied 419 adult outpatients ...

The lack of consensus or accepted definition for light sedation presents challenges to critical care practitioners seeking to follow guidelines related to pain, agitation and delirium. Comfort and ...

The "area under the curve of oxygen desaturation" (AUC Desat) may provide a more sophisticated approach to monitoring blood oxygen levels during procedures using sedation, according to a study ...

Patients who use cannabis required higher levels of sedation during gastric endoscopies than non-users, according to research to be presented at Digestive Disease Week ® (DDW) 2022. As cannabis is ...

There is no official reporting or tabulation of dental sedation morbidity and mortality. The dental profession sees the occasional "horror story" in sensational media reports and is left to wonder.

Conscious sedation helps reduce anxiety, discomfort, and pain during certain medical procedures. Doctors use medications and sometimes local anesthesia to induce relaxation. Conscious sedation is now ...

DECATUR - A Dental Practice Act requirement for dentists administering deeper levels of sedation to acquire permits went into effect Jan. 1. In 2006, 5-year-old Diamond Brownridge of Chicago died ...