enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Midazolam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midazolam

    Midazolam is a Schedule IV drug under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances. [81] In the United Kingdom, midazolam is a Schedule 3/Class C controlled drug. [ 82 ] In the United States, midazolam (DEA number 2884) is on the Schedule IV list of the Controlled Substances Act as a non-narcotic agent with low potential for abuse.

  3. Twilight anesthesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_anesthesia

    Additionally, IV sedation is frequently administered as a concoction of several agents including those previously mentioned for induction and maintenance of anesthesia, as well as a benzodiazepine (usually midazolam, but temazepam or flunitrazepam are also used via the oral route [4]) and a narcotic/systemic analgesic such as demerol or fentanyl.

  4. IUD Insertion Doesn't Need to be Painful. Here’s What Your ...

    www.aol.com/iud-insertion-doesnt-painful-doctor...

    IV sedation will significantly dull—if not completely block—the pain of the procedure. You should expect to spend an additional 15 to 20 minutes in the office while the drugs wear off, and you ...

  5. Total intravenous anaesthesia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_intravenous_anaesthesia

    Opioid, lidocaine and midazolam are adjuvant agents frequently administered to minimize pain during the injection of the induction agents. [45] [46] They are also used to lessen the sympathetic stress response, cough reflex during laryngoscopy or intubation, and supplement sedation by synergistic effects.

  6. Remimazolam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remimazolam

    In the third group, all participants received midazolam only [5] Additionally, in all three trials participants received a medication for pain control [5] Trials 1 and 2 compared participants who received remimazolam to participants in the other two groups, measuring the success of sedation with the set of pre-determined criteria. [5]

  7. Etomidate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etomidate

    Etomidate replaces midazolam as the sedative. Drug companies have made it harder to buy midazolam for executions. The etomidate was followed by rocuronium bromide, a paralytic, and finally, potassium acetate in place of the commonly used potassium chloride injection to stop the heart. Potassium acetate was first used for this purpose ...

  8. Sedation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedation

    Sedation is typically used in minor surgical procedures such as endoscopy, vasectomy, or dentistry and for reconstructive surgery, some cosmetic surgeries, removal of wisdom teeth, or for high-anxiety patients. [2] Sedation methods in dentistry include inhalation sedation (using nitrous oxide), oral sedation, and intravenous (IV) sedation ...

  9. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_sedation

    In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...