TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Procedural Sedation A1 - Oldeg, Paula E. A2 - Sherman, Scott C. A2 - Weber, Joseph M. A2 - Schindlbeck, Michael A. A2 - Rahul G., Patwari PY - 2014 T2 - Clinical Emergency Medicine AB - Procedural sedation is the administration of analgesic and sedative agents to induce a depressed level of consciousness so that a medical procedure can be performed without patient movement or memory.Procedural sedation should maintain cardiorespiratory function without requiring advanced airway adjuncts.Preprocedure patient assessment and proper selection of pharmacologic agents are the keys to patient safety. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/20 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101223007 ER -