May 26, 2010 — Editor's note: Accurately identifying and appropriately addressing sources of agitation and pain are essential elements of good anesthesia practice in critical care units, according to ...

Objectives: This review will focus on the pharmacokinetics (with an emphasis on the context-sensitive half-time), pharmacodynamics, and hemodynamic characteristics of the most commonly used ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

This book is an American text covering the practice of sedation and analgesia. It is primarily aimed at the non-anaesthetist sedation practitioner, covering a wide range of medical specialties. The ...

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are treated with many interventions (most notably endotracheal intubation and invasive mechanical ventilation) that are observed or perceived to be distressing.

Safety in pediatric sedation relies on strict guidelines and monitoring, so let's learn how providers utilize pharmacological ...

Anesthesia is not an area of medicine most folks profess to understand. As one anesthesiologist put it: “The lay public has the notion that we knock people on the head and they go to sleep, and then ...

Anesthesia and analgesia should be provided to ferrets that are undergoing potentially painful surgical procedures. The epidural route of administration for anesthetic or analgesic drugs can be used.

If you haven’t read part one of this two-part article, I suggest reading it now to glean the full scope of its message as it applies to part two. Comfort for the patient during dental procedures is ...

Acupuncture's multi-pathway effects in ICU patients may reduce complications, support rehabilitation, and improve recovery ...

The state of sedation, analgesia, amnesia and muscle paralysis is called general anesthesia. In other words, general anesthesia is an induced, reversible and controlled loss of consciousness. This ...