title: Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in procedural sedation.
abstract: Maintenance of spontaneous effective ventilations can present unique challenges to emergency physicians directing procedural sedation in patients with underlying anatomic or physiologic upper airway pathology. In a morbidly obese patient requiring electrical cradioversion, use of bilevel positive airway pressure facilitated deep sedation while averting any adverse respiratory complications. Noninvasive pressure support ventilation may present another emergency department adjunct for difficult procedural sedation cases.
authors.affiliation: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Remick
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sacchetti
authors.forename: Gust
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bages
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Delagol
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D054810:Deep Sedation; D004554:Electric Countershock; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009767:Obesity, Morbid / Q000150:complications*; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration