BACKGROUND General anesthesia is frequently considered for pediatric patients, as they often find it difficult to cooperate and stay calm during administration of potentially painful treatments. Sedation can overcome these adversities; however, this is challenging while maintaining unobstructed airways. METHODS The study involved 11 pediatric dental patients treated with LMA under deep sedati...

Sedation for short but potentially painful procedures is often undertaken in the emergency department. The ideal sedative regimen should provide analgesia and anxiolysis with minimal side effects and cardiorespiratory depression and rapid recovery post-procedure. Propofol has found increasing popularity with anaesthetists for sedation in the operating theatre. This is a review of the current li...

BACKGROUND Spinal cord stimulators are most often placed through a percutaneous approach using minimal sedation and local anesthesia to facilitate intraoperative testing. However, when leads need to be placed using a laminectomy incision additional anesthesia is required which can complicate intraoperative testing. There is no consensus as to the best anesthetic choice when laminectomy-placed l...

E is relatively safe, with a complication rate of less than 1% for standard procedures such as esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) and colonoscopy.1 Theoretically obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) can lead to cardiopulmonary complications during procedural sedation. However the initial studies addressing the presence of OSA in patients undergoing upper endoscopy and colonoscopy did not find an increas...

Patients with severe gag reflex (SGR) have difficulty getting the treatment they require in local clinics, and many tend to postpone the start of their treatment. To address this problem, dentists have used behavioral techniques and/or pharmacological techniques for treatment. Among the pharmacological methods available, propofol IV sedation is preferred over general anesthesia because it is a ...

Perioperative necessity of deep sedation is inevitably associated with diaphragmatic inactivation. This study investigated 1) the feasibility of a new phrenic nerve stimulation method allowing early diaphragmatic activation even in deep sedation and, 2) metabolic changes within the diaphragm during mechanical ventilation compared to artificial activity. 12 piglets were separated into 2 groups. ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is accepted as a treatment for gastric neoplasms and usually requires deep sedation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy profiles of deep sedation induced by continuous propofol infusion with or without midazolam during ESD. METHODS A total of 135 patients scheduled for ESDs between December 2008 and June 2010 we...