Prioritizing nonpharmacologic strategies, enhancing staff training, and distinguishing Delirium Superimposed on Dementia (DSD) are vital to improving outcomes for hospitalized patients with Alzheimer ...

Discover how sedation dentistry at Meredith Davis, DDS helps anxious patients overcome fear, receive care comfortably and ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Procedural sedation and analgesia involve the use of one or more sedative and analgesic agents to relieve pain and anxiety and to ...

Sedation in the context of palliative medicine is the monitored use of medications to induce varying degrees of unconsciousness to bring about a state of decreased or absent awareness (i.e.

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

Indiana currently does not have a law to expressly prohibit doctors or medical students from performing exams on you that you didn't agree to before being sedated.

Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

Inhaled isoflurane sedation was on par with IV midazolam for children age 3 to 17 years in the ICU on mechanical ventilation in a randomized trial. Isoflurane also reduced time to extubation and ...

A healthy mouth is important at every age, but good dental health is especially crucial for children. From infancy through ...

The increasing use of deep sedation for routine colonoscopy in North America is a trend that should be curtailed. Deep sedation is of marginal benefit. Deep sedation costs more than traditional ...

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

In the contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point — that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as ...