Changes Clinical Practice: In ICUs that have a sedation-analgesia-delirium protocol, dexmedetomidine should be added to the formulary and utilized to combat delirium as well as decrease the amount of ...

Findings showed MELT-300 was statistically superior to both sublingual midazolam and placebo for providing successful procedural sedation. Topline results were announced from a phase 3 trial ...

House on fire? No worry. Sabre-toothed tiger chasing you? Big deal. Major surgery scheduled? Yawn. Fortunately for mankind (or at least most of us), there’s a sedative called Versed — and it relaxes ...

Remimazolam had a higher success rate in sedating patients undergoing outpatient oral surgery compared to midazolam, according to a study published on September 15 in the Journal of Oral and ...

Adding fentanyl to midazolam for conscious sedation may improve dental operating conditions for patients, specifically those who could not be sedated with a single drug in the past, according to a ...

If a patient is successfully resuscitated after a cardiac arrest and circulation resumes, they are not out of the woods yet. A number of factors can influence whether and how they survive the trauma ...

Dexmedetomidine produces sedation while maintaining a degree of arousability and may reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and delirium among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). The use ...