Abstract
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' sedation standards detail the differences between sedation and anesthesia. These standards, however, note that it is important that those applying sedation be trained to rescue patients who may slip from moderate sedation into deep sedation or from deep sedation into anesthesia.
MeSH terms
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Anesthesia / methods
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Anesthesia / nursing
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Anesthesia / standards*
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Conscious Sedation / methods
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Conscious Sedation / nursing
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Conscious Sedation / standards*
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Humans
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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
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Monitoring, Physiologic / methods
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Monitoring, Physiologic / nursing
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Monitoring, Physiologic / standards
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Nursing Assessment / methods
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Nursing Assessment / standards
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Operating Room Nursing / methods
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Operating Room Nursing / standards
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Practice Guidelines as Topic*
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Semantics
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United States