sedation

If someone took oral sedation, then is still needing sedation, we don't know if their medication hasn't worked, or is still coming on.

It looks like propofol is pretty commonly used for colonoscopy sedation in the United States, not without controversy.

He required full sedation/ventilation for about a week before he could be woken up without thrashing around.

Combine it with some sedation if it's decided that decapitating a conscious person is cruel and unusual.

If the parents are begging for sedation from the moment they hit the front desk, it goes badly even with sedation (we don't do any GA where I work).

Additionally, this will greatly bring down costs for healthy routine procedures that need sedation.

We use IV sedation, its controllable, easily reversible, easy to top up.

I know there are risks with any kind of sedation or anaesthetic, however anecdotally they've saved me a lot of trauma.

It involves sedation/anesthetic and invasion of the body by medical equipment.

I've had an endoscopy before, to push down some food stuck at the top of my stomach, with no sedation or numbing.

However, I suspect these machines will move into bigger and bigger surgeries to help assist the gas-passers provide safer analgesia and sedation.

There are clinics that offer 'five day detox' under sedation, but that's expensive (GBP 5K plus) and good luck getting NHS or health insurance to pay.

I've always been afraid of intravenous sedation (="twilight anesthetic" in other English speaking countries) for the same reason.

It's most certainly not "curtains and sedation." Just that bit of factual nonsense leads me to believe you are speaking far out of your area of expertise.

But when people talk about a lighter kind of anesthesia called "twilight sedation" or "conscious sedation", they actually do mean "we'll make you a little woozy, but keep you awake -- and also inhibit memory formation so you'll feel like you slept through it." The lack of disclosure to patients of exactly what this means -- "yes, you'll be awake, but you won't remember" -- gives me bad feelings about medical ethics.

Sedation for colonoscopies is usually a sedative like midazolam and an opioid like fentanyl.

Sedation is the problem with healthcare exemplified.