introduction: preoperative psycho emotional preparation of patients is one of the principle purposes of anesthesia which can be achieved by administration of premedications. children should receive premedication before entering the operating room due to their dependence on parents and the fear and anxiety of separation from parents. different drugs are administered for this purpose, but conside...

abstract introduction. some children show aggressive uncontrollable behavior during dental procedures, the only way to control this behavior is pharmacological methods such as conscious sedation. recently intranasal administration of midazolam has been considered. the main goal of our study is to determine the effectiveness of intranasal administration of midazolam (in a does of 0.5 mg/kg) in b...

background and aims. there are several known sedative drugs, with midazolam and ketamine being the most com-monly used drugs in children. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of intranasal and oral midazolam plus ket-amine in children with high levels of dental anxiety. materials and methods. a crossover double-blind clinical trial was conducted on 23 uncooperative children aged 3‒6 ...

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 tr...

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of midazolam given intranasally with diazepam given intravenously in the treatment of children with prolonged febrile seizures. DESIGN Prospective randomised study. SETTING Paediatric emergency department in a general hospital. SUBJECTS 47 children aged six months to five years with prolonged febrile seizure (at least 10 minutes) during a 12 mo...

To compare the efficacy of intranasal midazolam in relation to intravenous midazolam for control of seizures. To observe variability if any amongst the two groups in terms of heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation. A Prospective Randomized study conducted on 100 patients of 0-19 years of age hospitalized in emergency ward and NICU in a convulsing state. They were div...

AIM Intranasal midazolam has been used to induce conscious sedation in children with negative and aggressive behavior The main goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of intranasal administration of midazolam (with a dose of 0.5 mg/kg) in behavior management of uncooperative children. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty healthy, difficult children of 3-5 years were evaluated. At the be...

This study evaluated the anticonvulsant effectiveness of midazolam to stop seizures elicited by the nerve agent soman when midazolam was administered by different routes (intramuscular, intranasal or sublingual) at one of two different times after the onset of seizure activity. Guinea pigs previously prepared with cortical electrodes to record brain electroencephalographic activity were pre-tre...

We compared the efficacy of intranasal midazolam, ketamine and their mixture as premedication in children with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) using bispectral index (BIS), sedation score and separation score at the time of separation from parent. Sedation score at the time of intravenous cannulation was also measured. Children with TOF physiology were randomly divided into three equal groups of 20 e...

Objective- This study aimed to compare sedation efficacy in intranasal administration of xylazine, diazepam and midazolam with or without ketamine in Chough. Design- To determine the sedation efficacy, an experimental in vivo study was employed. Animals- Seven healthy Choughs were examined in the current study. Procedu...