Patient-maintained sedation for oral surgery using a target-controlled infusion of propofol - a pilot study [PDF]
, 2003 OBJECTIVE: To assess the safety and efficacy of a new patient-maintained propofol system for conscious sedation in dentistry. DESIGN: Prospective clinical trial SETTING: Department of Sedation, Glasgow Dental Hospital and School, 2001 SUBJECTS AND ...
AW Murray +15 more
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Possible proteomic biomarkers for the detection of pancreatic cancer in oral fluids
Scientific Reports, 2020 The 80% mortality rate of pancreatic-cancer (PC) makes early diagnosis a challenge. Oral fluids (OF) may be considered the ultimate body fluid for non-invasive examinations.
O. Deutsch +11 more
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The implausibility of ‘usual care’ in an open system: sedation and weaning practices in Paediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) in the United Kingdom (UK) [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The power of the randomised controlled trial depends upon its capacity to operate in a closed system whereby the intervention is the only causal force acting upon the experimental group and absent in the control group, permitting a valid ...
B Ambuel +34 more
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Up-to-date literature review and issues of sedation during digestive endoscopy
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques, 2023 Sedation is common during digestive endoscopy to provide comfort and pain relief for patients. However, the use of sedation in endoscopy also poses potential risks, and recent issues have been raised regarding its safety and administration.
Lu-Lu Lv, Meng-Meng Zhang
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Controversies surrounding continuous deep sedation at the end of life : the parliamentary and societal debates in France [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Continuous deep sedation at the end of life is a practice that has been the topic of considerable ethical debate, for example surrounding its perceived similarity or dissimilarity with physician-assisted dying.
Chambaere, Kenneth +2 more
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Safety profile of oxcarbazepine: results from a prescription-event monitoring study [PDF]
, 2010 Purpose: To monitor safety of oxcarbazepine, prescribed in primary care in England, using prescription-event monitoring (PEM). Methods: Postmarketing surveillance using observational cohort technique of PEM.
Buggy, Y. +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of patients in ICUs leading to a worldwide shortage of the intravenous sedative agents obligating physicians to find alternatives including inhaled sedation. Inhaled sedation in French ICU has been
Raiko Blondonnet +9 more
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Sedation in Intensive Care: A review of the State-of-the-Art
Общая реаниматология, 2012 The review deals with sedation in intensive care unit patients. It covers problems in monitoring, choice of a goal sedation level, use of a sedation pause and timely choice of medications. Key words: intensive care unit sedation, sedation scale, sedation
S. Yu. Belyshev, A. L. Levit
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Inhalation Sedation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2019 Purpose The safety and effectiveness of inhalation sedation, a technique that enables sedation using the inhalation of an anesthetic in an out-of-theater environment was evaluated in this study Methods Electronic literature databases were used to ...
JinA Mo
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background: Little is known about the practice of pediatric procedural sedation in Africa, despite being incredibly useful to the emergency care of children.
Megan L. Schultz +5 more
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