Safety in pediatric sedation relies on strict guidelines and monitoring, so let's learn how providers utilize pharmacological ...

Sedation is one of the most imperative skills for healthcare providers to acquire to ensure patient safety. It has revolutionized how healthcare providers deliver care, offering a balance of comfort ...

Martha A. Q. Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN; Sion Kim Harris, PhD; Karen A. Fraser, RN; Rita A. Johnson, RN, BSN; John H. Arnold, MD The dimensions include descriptors that ...

A new ‘closed-loop’ system can accurately adjust levels of anesthetics and analgesic drugs in surgical patients, according to a study published in the March issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. The system ...

Potentially harmful levels of methemoglobin, which can build in patients receiving certain anesthetics, can be detected using a new, non-invasive monitoring technique called pulse CO-oximetry, ...

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...

Patient-administered nitrous oxide (N 2 O) delivery systems are quickly becoming a sought-after service for clinicians in various medical fields, from dentists to med spas. Nitrous oxide has effects ...

Ilana Jacqueline is a patient, an advocate and the author— she also went nineteen years without a diagnosis. After she was finally diagnosed with a rare genetic disease, she spent the next eleven ...

Objective: To develop and test the reliability and validity of the State Behavioral Scale for use in describing sedation/agitation levels in young intubated patients supported on mechanical ...