Nitrous Oxide Sedation
CHAPTER 6 Nitrous Oxide Sedation Marjon B. Jahromi Nitrous oxide (N2O) sedation was first used as an anesthetic agent in 1844 and can be considered a safe alternative to intravenous…
GENERAL & FAMILY MEDICINE
Procedural Sedation and Analgesia
CHAPTER 2 Procedural Sedation and Analgesia Sylvana Guidotti Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) is the clinical practice of using pharmacologic agents to achieve a measurable level of sedation, while performing…
Cosmeceuticals and Skin Care
CHAPTER 47 Cosmeceuticals and Skin Care Wendy L. Smeltzer Products applied to the skin can range from purely cosmetic products to prescription drugs, but many fall somewhere in between and…
Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia
CHAPTER 3 Epidural Anesthesia and Analgesia Peter W. Grigg Epidural anesthesia (i.e., complete relief of pain and significant motor block) and analgesia (i.e., the relief of pain only, with as…
Topical Anesthesia
CHAPTER 10 Topical Anesthesia Suraj Achar, Jonathan Chan Topical anesthesia offers patients an alternative to local injectable anesthetics. The ideal topical anesthetic should provide 100% anesthesia with rapid onset of…
Pediatric Sedation and Analgesia
CHAPTER 7 Pediatric Sedation and Analgesia Paul W. Davis Over the past decade, various professional medical societies and hospital associations have readdressed the challenging issue of sedation and pain control…
Local and Topical Anesthetic Complications
CHAPTER 5 Local and Topical Anesthetic Complications William L. McDaniel, Jr., Raymond F. Jarris, Jr. Many in-office surgical procedures require the use of local or topical anesthetics. Topical anesthetics are…
Bier Block
CHAPTER 1 Bier Block Peter W. Grigg Intravenous (IV) regional anesthesia, also known as a Bier block, is a useful method of providing operative anesthesia to wide areas of the…
