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Archive > June, 2009 Vol. X, No. 6

Anesthesia Alert

10 Conscious Sedation Safety Tips

Sheldon Sones, RPh, FASCP

Use these 10 pointers to brush up on the basics of conscious sedation and see if your facility is over- or underutilizing the drugs used in endoscopy cases.

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