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Sedation for Interventional Pain Procedures

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Many patients undergoing interventional techniques may require mild to moderate sedation, related to the nature of chronic pain and anxiety. Since the patient cannot communicate acute changes in symptoms, deep sedation and/or general anesthesia for most interventional procedures is considered as unsafe, thus resulting in increased morbidity and mortality, and creating compliance issues. For patients undergoing interventional pain procedures, sedation is a critical aspect and requires competence and defined standards of experience and expertise. Along with the monitoring standards established by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), including temperature, blood pressure, EKG, pulse oximetry, and quantitative end tidal CO2, other considerations are warranted by the anesthesiologist for a safe and successful procedure, including perioperative medications and fasting.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Warren Southerland, Alexandra Fonseca & Mark R. Jones

  2. Louisiana State University Health New Orleans, School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Meredith L. Gioe

  3. Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, School of Medicine, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Anna C. Rogers & Mason E. Triay

  4. Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Anesthesia, New York, NY, USA

    Mark R. Jones

  5. Department of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Elyse M. Cornett

  6. Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neurosciences, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA

    Alan David Kaye

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Southerland, W. et al. (2021). Sedation for Interventional Pain Procedures. In: Rajput, K., Vadivelu, N., Kaye, A.D., Shah, R.V. (eds) Pain Control in Ambulatory Surgery Centers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55262-6_17

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