Abstract

RODRIGUEZ PRADA, Catalina; PENALOZA REY, Nicolás Felipe; PARRA CORDOBA, José Fernando  and  MORENO CARRILLO, Atilio. Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department. Univ. Med. [online]. 2021, vol.62, n.1, pp.33-45.  Epub Jan 15, 2021. ISSN 0041-9095.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.umed62-1.seda.

Patients in the emergency department often need some painful, distressing, or unpleasant diagnostic and therapeutic procedures as part of their care. The use of various pain relievers, sedatives, and anesthetics has been described in several well-referenced guidelines. The different options for the administration of sedation drugs in the emergency room currently allow them to be performed more effectively and safely than in past times, in addition to facilitating the carrying out of specific procedures that would otherwise require anesthesia in the operating room, thus speeding up the management of patients and reducing the length of hospital stay of patients. The objective of this review is to present the therapeutic strategies aimed to providing the best possible management in patients who require sedation for unscheduled diagnostic or therapeutic procedures in the emergency department.

Keywords : conscious sedation; analgesia; emergency medicine; emergency medical services.

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