Some licensing authorities require fasting before abortions under intravenous sedation to avoid aspiration of gastric contents.
This is the first report of hepatectomy performed under epidural anesthesia with conscious sedation to avoid general anesthesia with endotracheal intubation.
Furthermore, because the dose of sedatives is determined by the level of sedation acquired, it would be essential to use mandatory daily interruption of sedation to avoid over-sedation.
The ventilator settings often use a totally controlled mode and are combined with deep sedation to avoid spontaneous ventilator cycles.
Simultaneous evaluations of pain, first and foremost, then of sedation, to avoid excessive sedative administration, and finally of delirium, to differentiate delirium symptoms that may be confounders for pain and insufficient sedation, should be routine in ICU patients.
Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Card visited the bedside of Mr. Ashcroft, who was in pain and under sedation, to seek his signature on the reauthorization.
But in a 2012 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit found that even with a warrant, a "proctoscopic examination under sedation" to search for drugs is unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
Peripheral blood was collected by venipuncture when animals were under sedation to relieve pain and suffering.
Since the elderly patients are prone to opioid-related side effects (respiratory depression, nausea, and sedation), anesthesiologists tend to avoid aggressive use of postoperative opioids [9].
Deep sedation is recommended to avoid uncontrolled increases of ICP [ 27, 28].
