title: Complications in IVCS and management.
abstract: Choose your patients carefully. Check and understand your equipment. Be vigilant and prepared for the unexpected event. Remember basic airway techniques. Have differential diagnoses for the more common complications. Have clearly defined personal and departmental plans to deal with emergency situations. Use medication judiciously; you cannot take it out but you can always give more! The use of reversal agents should never be routine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, MA 02118, USA.
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Stanley
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000139:chemically induced; D017109:Akathisia, Drug-Induced / Q000209:etiology; D001049:Apnea / Q000139:chemically induced; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000139:chemically induced; D001519:Behavior / Q000187:drug effects; D016292:Procedural Sedation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004630:Emergencies; D004868:Equipment Failure; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D007022:Hypotension / Q000139:chemically induced; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation; D018579:Patient Selection; D012151:Resuscitation
chemical_list: D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives