Preprocedural anxiety levels among children undergoing procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) with ketamine in the emergency department are not associated with the incidence of vomiting, according to ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Clinicians may be surprised that rules governing deep procedural sedation in intensive care settings forbid certain practices that seem like standard care, according to a discussion at ...

Findings showed MELT-300 was statistically superior to both sublingual midazolam and placebo for providing successful procedural sedation. Topline results were announced from a phase 3 trial ...

When a patient undergoes conscious sedation, they are given pain and relaxation medications via an intravenous (IV) line in the arm. Unlike general anesthesia, the patient remains awake throughout the ...

Failed sedation for routine gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is extremely rare, warranting a return to endoscopist-directed sedation, rather than costly anesthesia-assisted sedation, as the default ...