Agitated and uncooperative children are frequently a challenge for safe anesthetic induction or urgent surgical procedures in emergency departments. Promoting anxiolysis and light sedation facilitates the performance of such procedures, reducing the adverse effects and increasing parents’ and health care team’s satisfaction. In a recently published study by Kawanda et al.,1 intranasal midazolam...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of intranasal ketamine and midazolam on behavior of 3-6 year-old children during dental treatments. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this randomized cross-over clinical trial, 17 uncooperative children requiring at least two dental treatments were selected and randomly received ketamine (0.5mg/kg) or midazolam (0.2mg/kg) prior to trea...

Preanesthetic medication in paediatric patients is well known to be a challenge for anaesthesiologists. Premedication population helps produce relaxed state with reduced anxiety and increased compliance as ease separation from parent allowing the patient tolerate co-operate necessary procedure. Our aim do comparation of dexmedetomidine midazolam given via intranasal route children posted tonsil...

BACKGROUND Rapid treatment of status epilepticus (SE) is associated with better outcomes. Diazepam and midazolam are commonly used, but the optimal agent and administration route is unclear. OBJECTIVES The objective was to determine by systematic review if nonintravenous (non-IV) midazolam is as effective as diazepam, by any route, in terminating SE seizures in children and adults. Time to se...