Intravenous sedation and regional analgesia

Intravenous Regional Analgesia: an Appraisal.

Oxygen desaturation following sedation for regional analgesia.

Moderate to severe arterial oxygen desaturation (SaO2 75-88%) occurred in three of four patients who were given sedation during regional conduction block without the administration of oxygen. No desaturation occurred in six patients given oxygen 2 litre min-1 via a nasal catheter during similar procedures. It is concluded that patients undergoing regional conduction block with concurrent sedati...

Procedural Sedation and Analgesia

The performance of painful diagnostic and therapeutic procedures is common in emergency care. Many of these are associated with significant anxiety, especially in children. Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) has therefore become a fundamental and required skill for emergency physicians and an integral part of the core training of emergency medicine residents. PSA improves the quality of pa...

Intravenous regional analgesia in a patient with Glanzmann thrombastenia.

Glanzmann thrombastenia (GT) is a rare condition of an inherited autosomal recessive gene characterized with bleeding tendency. The condition is rarely met in the OR. and therefore it is essential that anesthesiologist be cognizant of the risk involved and be prepared with all necessary precautionary measures. We present a GT case in a 27-year-old male with a mass in the anticubital region of r...

R Mackenzie. Analgesia and Sedation

The principle aims of pre-hospital care are to preserve life, minimise complications resulting from injury and reduce pain and suffering (1).To achieve this, the pre-hospital practitioner should be confident in the safe use of a limited range of analgesic and sedative drugs (1,2). In this article, a summary of effective and safe techniques for analgesia and sedation in both the civilian and mil...