LIFE-THREATENING respiratory depression is the most serious of the opioid adverse effects. To most nurses, it is one of the most frightening aspects of opioid administration. However, nurses can be the key to preventing clinically significant respiratory depression by performing systematic assessments of their patients’ sedation levels. Less opioid is required to produce sedation than to produc...

introduction the purpose of this study was to compare remifentanil versus propofol effect on pain and homodynamic in patients undergoing phacoemulsification with topical anesthesia. materials and methods a double blind clinical trial was conducted to research following the approval of the ethical committee research of the university. one hundred volunteer subjects were randomly assigned into tw...

July, 1974 377 TERIAL blood gases and p11 may reflect the respiratory depression produced by tranquilizing and narcoticanalgesic agents used in premedication before surgical anesthesia. The absence of respiratory depression is one of the desirable qualities of an ideal premedicant or sedative drug. Therefore, it is essential to know if, and to what extent, a particular drug depresses respiratio...