Dental fear and anxiety is a common problem in pediatric patients. There is considerable variation in techniques used to manage them. Various sedation techniques using many different anesthetic agents have gained considerable popularity over the past few years. Children are not little adults; they differ physically, psychologically, and emotionally. The purpose of this review is to survey recen...

TO THE EDITOR: We read with great interest the article by Quill and colleagues (1), which presented and discussed 3 categories of palliative sedation: ordinary sedation, proportionate palliative sedation (PPS), and palliative sedation to unconsciousness (PSU). One notion shared by these practices, and by all attempts to justify sedation, is that the degree of sedation should match the symptoms—...

how to cite this article: fallah r, fadavi n, behdad sh, fallah tafti m. efficacy of chloral hydrate-hydroxyzine and chloral hydrate-midazolam in pediatric magnetic resonance imaging sedation. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):11-17. objective magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of congenital or acquired brain lesions. but, in all of less than 8-y...

Paediatric sedation has expanded in volume and demand over the past decade. In parallel with the increasing demand for and delivery of sedation by multi-specialty providers, conflicting political agendas have surfaced. With a limited selection of sedatives and few new sedatives to market over the past decade, some providers utilize agents that formerly were considered exclusive for administrati...

introduction: tonsillectomy is the one of the most common types of surgery in children, and is often accompanied by post-operative pain and discomfort. methods of pain control such as use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids), narcotics, and local anesthetics have been used, but each have their own particular side effects. in this study we investigated the effect of ketamine on post...

â  background propofol is used as a sedative drug during colonoscopy. in this study we analyzed the adverse effects of propofol (i.e., hemodyâ­namic and respiratory) on patients who underwent colonoscopies. me t hod s this study was performed in qom province, iran. in this study, 125 patients (63 females, 62 males) were enrolled. study patients were administered (0.5-1.5 mg/kg) intravenous prop...

BACKGROUND Inhaled sedation is efficient and easily controllable; in low concentrations it causes minimal changes in the patient and very little interference with hemodynamics. Awakening after inhaled sedation is quick and predictable. The major reason inhaled sedation has not become widely used in intensive care is that no commercially available administration device has been available. METH...