From: "Howard McCollister" <nospam@nospam.net>
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: "Alert anesthesia"
Date: 7 Sep 2004 19:29:06 -0500
Message-ID: <413e51c9$0$94962$45beb828@newscene.com>

"Mike" <yared22311@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cd3bf67d.0409070905.5cad63a1@posting.google.com...
> Alert anesthesia
> Conscious sedation, otherwise known as alert anesthesia or moderate
> sedation, is a black box in more ways than one.
> at http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040906-095845-9092r.htm

Mostly, this article is self-serving baloney, parrotting the party line from
the American Society of Anesthesiology. Intravenous conscious sedation with
Versed and Demerol/Fentanyl has an exceptional safety record and is only
rarely administered by anesthesiologists or anesthetists. Propofol, OTOH, I
agree is tricky stuff and should be administered and monitored closely by an
anesthetist who uses it routinely.

HMc