Sedation is often used to achieve comfort in mechanically ventilated patients. This comparison looks at 3 drugs in terms of safety and efficacy for sedation during mechanical ventilation.

The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent studies suggest repeated or ...

While intravenous sedation is usually used safely during dental procedures, there is still a risk of severe adverse effects, including death. Japanese researchers wanted to see if there was an optimal ...

Sedative-hypnotic drugs — commonly called "depressants" — slow down or "depress" the activity of the brain. The best known are barbiturates (Amytal, Nembutal, Seconal, phenobarbital) and ...

The Food and Drug Administration this week announced that it was requiring new warnings about the repeated or lengthy use of general anesthesia and sedative drugs in ...

A video of a German shepherd puppy trying his best to do anything but fall asleep after receiving sedation medication has left the internet in hysterics.