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This review outlines the classification, pre-procedural assessment, monitoring, and pharmacological agents used for procedural sedation and analgesia in adults, along with potential complications.
This review summarizes current guidelines, classifications, and best practices for procedural sedation and analgesia to ensure patient safety during diagnostic and interventional procedures.
Offers clinicians a consolidated reference for safe sedation; leaves open need for procedure-specific outcome trials.
Sedation and analgesia may be needed for many interventional or diagnostic procedures, whose number has grown exponentially lately. The American Society of Anesthesiologists introduced the term “procedural sedation and analgesia” (PSA) and clarified the terminology, moderate sedation and Monitored Anesthesia Care. This review tries to present a nondissociative sedation classification, follow ing ASA guidelines as well as pre-procedural assessment and preparation, in order to choose the appropriate type and level of sedation, patient monitoring and agents, which are most commonly used for sedation and/or analgesia, along with their possible side effects. The paper also lists the possible complications associated with PSA and a few specific particularities of procedural sedation.
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Duţu et al. (2019) conducted a review in Procedural sedation and analgesia. Procedural sedation and analgesia was evaluated. This review outlines the classification, pre-procedural assessment, monitoring, and pharmacological agents used for procedural sedation and analgesia in adults, along with potential complications.
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