Anesthesia for diagnostic procedures.
Anesthetists and other providers are seeing an increased demand for sedation or anesthesia for challenging patients undergoing diagnostic procedures. Regardless of the specialty of the provider, proper attention must be paid to patient evaluation, monitoring, and drug dosage. The present review summarizes recommendations regarding sedation, as well as recent literature on sedation and anesthesia for endoscopy, radiology, pediatric oncology procedures, and pediatric electroencephalography.
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Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98125, USA. levere@chmc.org