PeaceHealth Earns National Honor for Clinical Sedation Safety Efforts
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Moderate sedation is typically given to patients undergoing minimally invasive procedures that do not take place in a traditional operating room, such as colonoscopy, wound care or cardiac catheterization. Delivered by non-anesthesiologist sedation practitioners, it has become routine in many settings including radiology, gastroenterology, cardiology, pediatrics and emergency medicine.
Serious complications, most commonly slow and ineffective breathing, can occur when a patient receives too much medicine and transitions to deep sedation.
"Sedating a patient outside of the operating room requires extra safety measures and equipment," said
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