Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia, 1st Edition

• New clinically focused text ensures clinicians involved in the administration and management of patients receiving moderate sedation have access to the most up-to-date information.
• Strong safety focus throughout the book explains how technology and clinician practice can improve sedation administration.
• Chapters organized in clinical problem/question plus answer format help you easily comprehend material.
• Follows the latest TJC Sedation/Anesthesia Guidelines ensuring you are ready for medication administration in clinical practice.
• Pediatrics and Geriatrics chapters cover specific sedation practice recommendations that address the substantive clinical practice challenges associated with these patient populations.
• Pharmacologic profiles of medications detail their use in the moderate sedation practice setting.

1. Scope of Practice and Legal and Regulatory Considerations for the Sedation Provider
2. Presedation Assessment and Patient Selection
3. Basic Pharmacologic Concepts for Sedation Clinical Practice
4. Pharmacology of Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesic Agents & Techniques of Administration
5. Sedation-Analgesia Pharmacologic Profile
6. The Effects of Hypnotic Suggestions in Sedation and Anesthesia
7. Airway Management Strategies for the Sedation Provider
8. Sedation Monitoring Modalities
9. Intravenous Insertion Techniques and Procedural Fluid Selection
10. Sedation Considerations for the Geriatric Patient
11. Sedation Considerations for the Pediatric Patient
12. Postsedation Patient Care
13. Simulation Strategies to Advance Patient Safety in the Sedation Setting: Risk Management Strategies
14. Care of the Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia Patient: Unfolding Clinical Case Study

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