Discover how sedation dentistry at Meredith Davis, DDS helps anxious patients overcome fear, receive care comfortably and ...

Janine E. Curcio and Dr. Robert Lowe provide a seven-point scale based on speech and responsiveness to decide whether or not to use sedation for an agitated patient. Managing an agitated or aggressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Healthcare providers use conscious sedation (also called procedural or moderate sedation) to effectively manage medication dosing and allow the patient to maintain independent breathing and ...

People have the right to be involved in discussions and make informed decisions about their care, as described in NICE's information on making decisions about your care. Making decisions using NICE ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

When terminal sedation is made the object of bioethical discussion, it is mostly in a way that a literary critic might call synecdochal: A part is taken for the whole. What is made the object of ...

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.

Advances in the treatment of paediatric diseases has led to an increase in the number of painful or distressing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures for which many children will need effective ...