Propofol Shortage Overview and Current Availability Propofol injection is commonly used by ASCs and other healthcare providers because it is a quick acting sedative. Use of the drug has risen ...

Linda Beaver, RN, MSN, MHA, administrator at Gateway Endoscopy Center in St. Louis, describes the challenge of maintaining sound anesthesia policies and procedures while using propofol and how her ASC ...

Dr. Conrad Murray is accused of giving Jackson a deadly dose of the sedative. Sept. 27, 2011— -- The trial of Conrad Murray, the doctor accused of giving Michael Jackson a lethal dose of propofol ...

Propofol is used in the operating room to induce anesthesia. To maintain anesthesia, a continuous infusion of the agent via a separate syringe pump is the standard procedure for total intravenous ...

In critically ill patients, sedation with alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists such as dexmedetomidine and clonidine, introduced within 48 hours of initiating mechanical ventilation, was not superior ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality, sedation quality and delirium in those receiving dexmedetomidine or clonidine did not differ from ...