Can patients near death safely receive sedation at home, fully respecting their own and their families' wishes? This practice, which is on the rise, is coming under increasing scrutiny and debate by ...

Sedation Safety Week kicked off March 12 with a reminder from DOCS Education of key steps dental professionals can take to ensure that patients undergoing sedation in their offices have a safe, ...

Physicians employ two kinds of approaches to palliative sedation, which is either mild sedation or deep sedation from the beginning. It is also vital to understand the reasons behind each approach, ...

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 ...

Conscious sedation helps reduce anxiety, discomfort, and pain during certain medical procedures. Doctors use medications and sometimes local anesthesia to induce relaxation. Conscious sedation is now ...

In almost every room people were sleeping, but not like babies. This was not the carefree sleep that would restore them to rise and shine for another day. It was the sleep before — and sometimes until ...

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.

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (February 18, 2010) – Can patients near death safely receive sedation at home, fully respecting their own and their families' wishes? This ...

The practice of giving sedation to patients near death in their homes is on the rise and is coming under increasing scrutiny and debate by palliative care researchers and practitioners. Now palliative ...