Conscious sedation for minor procedures in adults
Contributor(s): Jones, Dean R | Salgo, Peter | Meltzer, Joseph.
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Visual materialPublisher: Waltham, MA : Massachusetts Medical Society, 2011Description: 1 streaming video file (13:05 min.).Other title: Performing medical procedures.Subject(s): Conscious Sedation | Adjuvants, Anesthesia | Anesthesia | Anesthetics, IntravenousDDC classification: 617.96 Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: "Conscious sedation can provide benefits for both the patient who is undergoing an invasive procedure and the clinician who is performing it. Sedation is a continuum, and clinicians providing conscious sedation must be capable of supporting the patient's ventilation, oxygenation, and hemodynamics in the event that the patient becomes deeply sedated. A thorough evaluation of the patient is required to identify any contraindications. When a patient is given conscious sedation, the equipment needed to monitor the patient's level of consciousness, hemodynamics, ventilation, and oxygenation must be available. The clinician must be knowledgeable about the pharmacologic actions of the sedatives and analgesics to be used. The most serious complication of conscious sedation is respiratory and cardiovascular depression. At the completion of the procedure, the patient should be monitored until he or she returns to a baseline level of consciousness."--pdf summary.
Issued as an online web-only feature by the New England Journal of Medicine, 2011 v. 364 no. e54.
Video tutorial.
Title from resource description page (viewed July 1, 2011).
Available as both streaming video (13:05 min., 1 Adobe Flash file, sd., col.) and downloadable video files in WMV, PDB, and M4V formats (13:05 min., 1 video file, sd., col); PDF text version also available.
PDF summary available.
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"Conscious sedation can provide benefits for both the patient who is undergoing an invasive procedure and the clinician who is performing it. Sedation is a continuum, and clinicians providing conscious sedation must be capable of supporting the patient's ventilation, oxygenation, and hemodynamics in the event that the patient becomes deeply sedated. A thorough evaluation of the patient is required to identify any contraindications. When a patient is given conscious sedation, the equipment needed to monitor the patient's level of consciousness, hemodynamics, ventilation, and oxygenation must be available. The clinician must be knowledgeable about the pharmacologic actions of the sedatives and analgesics to be used. The most serious complication of conscious sedation is respiratory and cardiovascular depression. At the completion of the procedure, the patient should be monitored until he or she returns to a baseline level of consciousness."--pdf summary.
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