Sedation

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



Sedation is a method mostly used by doctors on patients to reduce stress, anxiety or agitation. Usually, those who cannot tolerate high levels of pain choose sedation. Doctors or dentists also make rely on their own observations whether they are to use sedation or not.

Even in minor dental procedures, sedation dentists use dental sedation to calm their patients. This is being done since the mouth is absolutely a small area to execute a dental procedure and squirming patients would make it even harder for the dentists to perform these dental procedures.

Children who are more fearful of needles and other medical equipment are given pediatric sedation. In the case of tooth extraction, for example, the sedation dentist would distract the child. The sedation dentist would make the eyes of the child wander away from the needle he or she is about to inject into the gums of the child.

This sort of dental sedation is also done on adults. Although the tooth seems a very small part of the body, the removal of it would cause too much pain that sedation is needed.

It's not only the field of dentistry that uses sedation. Other operational procedures also need sedation. Doctors use sedation or anesthesia to calm the nerves of their patients. Patients who scream in pain may also cause distress and panic to the operating team. Thus, using sedation on patients is quite a common practice.

Other areas of medicine which uses sedation include plastic surgery. Eye surgery also uses sedation. Actually, sedation is used on almost every medical procedure.

There are many horror stories about patients given too much sedation medicine that they wake up as different people. Sometimes, patients wake up with paralysis or feel some other disorders. Hence, qualified nurses or anesthesiologists are required to administer sedation to patients.


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