The term "sedative drug" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a drug that has a calming or soothing effect on a person. For example, "Some people take a sedative drug to help them relax and reduce anxiety."
Mrs. Finkbine has taken thalidomide, a sedative drug which has caused thousands of deformed births in Europe.
Over the years, many candidates have been proposed, including German measles during pregnancy; yeast infections; the sedative drug thalidomide; childhood vaccines; viruses; the labor-inducing drug Pitocin; and dietary, hormonal or immune system changes during pregnancy.
Due to the retrospective study design, consecutive data regarding cumulative sedative drug administration could not be assessed.
Although several small single-center studies demonstrate low rates of sedative drug administration after ETI in the emergency department (ED), little is known regarding post-ETI sedative drug practices nationally.
In postoperative sedation of obstetric patients, no sedative drug has been reported as the drug of choice due to a lack of adequate or well-controlled studies.
Very frequently, however, a medium's chirality is ignored, which has led, for example, to the disastrous misuse of sedative drug thalidomide [22].
Dexmedetomidine (Dex) is a sedative drug approved as dexdor® (Orion Pharma, Finland) for ICU sedation in adults in the European Union in 2011.
Spontaneous breathing remained normal during the study period in all patients; desaturation was successfully treated with administration of extra oxygen and sedative drug titration.
Although generally considered to be a sedative drug, alcohol has both stimulatory and depressant effects on behavior, depending on dose and time.
The sedative drug (propofol) was titrated in both groups to avoid patient's movements, cough and patient-ventilator asynchrony during the procedure, while keeping an exclusive spontaneous breathing activity during PSV.
While cocaine is depicted in film relatively often, Quaaludes, a sedative drug with hypnotic properties, are not as common to the screen.
