title: Anesthesia outside the operating room for emergency procedures.
abstract: Non-anesthetists usually provide sedation and anesthesia outside the operating room for emergency procedures. Techniques vary from no sedation to deep sedation using drugs with a good safety profile and few side effects. Newer methods of airway control may allow volatile agents such as sevoflurane to be used. Anesthetists may need to join sedation teams if they are to maintain control of their specialty.
authors.affiliation: University of West Indies, Barbados, West Indies.
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Moseley
authors.forename: A Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: K B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Shankar