Nurse-Administered Propofol Sedation Safety Further Confirmed – but Can We Really Allow Our Patients to Drive Afterwards?
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Nurse-administered propofol sedation safety further confirmed - but can we really allow our patients to drive afterwards?
present in 97.5% 30 min after the procedure. Patient satisfaction was also very good with 99.8% willing to repeat the same procedure. These findings serve to further confirm the strong impression that propofol is safe for use as a conscious sedation agent for endoscopy in the hands of appropriately trained endoscopists and endoscopy nurses. There are several studies over the last few years (inv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Digestion
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0012-2823,1421-9867
DOI: 10.1159/000187117