Dr. Juan Ignacio Vergara, leader of the medical team treating General Pinochet, said that the general was conscious and communicating with his family and doctors.
Surely, for example, the General is conscious of the partisan Republican campaign to promote him as "Bush's Grant," and is aware of the cause: the Party expects to lose the next Presidential election because of the war, but Petraeus offers hope, however faint, that a Republican nominee might find something in Iraq to embrace.
In general, light conscious sedation was the objective of our anesthetic technique.
Hoffmann et al. reported similar results, in terms of feasibility, complication rate, hospitalisation and local tumour control, after general anaesthesia or conscious sedation, and concluded that conscious sedation should be preferred, reserving general anaesthesia for non-compliant patients [14].
Given a constituency of enthusiastic generals, job-conscious legislators and contractors big and small, it becomes untouchable.
TV news in particular, but the press in general, seems more conscious that they are in the hands of "intelligence sources" and the police.
To determine the feasibility and potential efficacy of thermal balloon ablation of the endometrium in the outpatient setting without the need for general anesthesia or conscious sedation.
The procedure is minimally invasive, and performed while the patient is under general anesthetic or conscious sedation.
Propofol (2,6 diisopropylphenol) is an intravenous sedative-hypnotic, commonly used as an anesthetic for procedures requiring general anesthesia and conscious sedation as well as for prolonged sedation in intensive care units [19].
