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 ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

Sedation, together with analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis, is the end result of general anesthesia, which is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. Sedation, on its own, is ...