• Ann Emerg Med · Oct 2008

    Barriers to propofol use in emergency medicine.

    • Steven M Green and Baruch Krauss.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center & Children's Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA. stevegreen@tarascon.com
    • Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Oct 1;52(4):392-8.

    AbstractPropofol is rapidly becoming one of the most popular procedural sedation and analgesia agents in emergency medicine. However, in many hospitals emergency physicians lack access to this potent sedative. This article details the evidence and politics underlying this area of controversy, the nature and authority of hospital-wide sedation policies, and discussion of the most common criticisms of emergency department use of propofol.

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