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Archive > September, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 9

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Only a Matter of Time Before RNs Push Propofol

  "RNs Pushing Propofol" (July, page 24). As a nurse who has "pushed" procedural sedation drugs for more than a decade, I thought it interesting that the article presented the risks associated with propofol as if the same risks were not associated with every procedural sedation drug RNs already use. And it should go without saying that every nurse using any procedural sedation medication must be able to monitor the patient and "calmly restore" the patient's airway "immediately and routinely" when it is compromised. If not, she has no business doing it.

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