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Nursing Perspectives on the Care of Sedated Patients

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Sedation and Analgesia for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures

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Abstract

Recent changes in the health care environment have increased the demand for sedation to facilitate medical and diagnostic procedures. First, there has been an increased availability and utilization of various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Furthermore, it has become widely accepted that sedation and analgesia decrease the patient’ s anxiety, enhance the patient’ s comfort, and may thereby improve the success of any procedure (1). Additionally, the costs associated with sedation are less than those associated with general anesthesia for similar procedures (2), and the amount of disruption in daily life is also perceived to be less. Finally, several short-acting sedative agents have been introduced during the last few of decades that may offer safer alternatives for use during procedures.

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Voepel-Lewis, T. (2003). Nursing Perspectives on the Care of Sedated Patients. In: Malviya, S., Naughton, N.N., Tremper, K.K. (eds) Sedation and Analgesia for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-295-1_10

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