TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Procedural Sedation A1 - Weaver, Chris A2 - Tintinalli, Judith E. A2 - Stapczynski, J. Stephan A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Yealy, Donald M. A2 - Meckler, Garth D. A2 - Cline, David M. PY - 2016 T2 - Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 8e AB - Procedural sedation is the administration of sedatives or dissociative anesthetics to induce a depressed level of consciousness while maintaining cardiorespiratory function so that a medical procedure can be performed with little or no patient reaction or memory.1 Procedural sedation and analgesia is the addition of agents to reduce or eliminate pain.1 Levels of sedation are defined by the patient's level of responsiveness and cardiopulmonary function, not by the agents used (Table 37-1).2 By definition, patients receiving procedural sedation do not require routine airway protection with endotracheal intubation or other airway adjuncts, as opposed to general anesthesia, which typically requires airway protection. Procedural sedation is commonly done for scheduled outpatient medical procedures by nonanesthesiologists3,4 and is an accepted technique in emergency medicine.5,6,7,8 Procedural sedation performed in the ED presents different issues to the practitioner than scheduled outpatient sedation (Table 37-2).1,7,8 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/18 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1121503374 ER -