What is in a name--sedation or anesthesia.
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' sedation standards detail the differences between sedation and anesthesia. These standards, however, note that it is important that those applying sedation be trained to rescue patients who may slip from moderate sedation into deep sedation or from deep sedation into anesthesia.
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Children's Medical Center of Dallas, USA.
D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards*; D016292:Procedural Sedation / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing / Q000592:standards; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012660:Semantics; D014481:United States