Sedation under JCI standard

Sedation under JCI standard

The practice of anesthesia and sedation continues to expand beyond the operating room and now includes the gastroenterology suite, magnetic resonance imaging suites, and the cardiac catheterization laboratory. Non-anesthesiologists frequently administer sedation, in part because of a lack of available anesthesiologists and economic aspect, which emphasizes the safety of sedation. The Joint Comm...

Capnography: new standard of care for sedation?

Outpatient abdominoplasty under conscious sedation.

According to the authors, advantages of outpatient abdominoplasty performed with the patient under conscious sedation are decreased nausea and vomiting and greatly reduced risk of deep venous thrombosis. Sharp dissection without electrocautery, preservation of perforators, and a plane of dissection that preserves lymphatic vessels has provided rapid recovery, minimal need for postoperative narc...

Sedation for Epilepsy Surgery under Local Anesthesia

Performing craniotomy with the patient awake continues to represent an important option for the surgical management of patients with refractory epilepsy when intraoperative functional neurologic testing or electrocorticography (ECoG) are needed to define the extent of the corticectomy. The long duration of many neurosurgical procedures, the need to perform intraoperative functional cortical map...

Manual Testicular Detorsion under Propofol Sedation

Acute spermatic cord torsion is a urologic emergency requiring accurate diagnosis and timely intervention to effect testicular salvage. We report a case of adolescent testicular torsion successfully reduced following manual detorsion under sedation at the Emergency Department. Scrotal exploration and bilateral orchidopexy were subsequently performed as a semielective procedure.