Trained nurses in most critical care settings often administer propofol safely to patients who are intubated and ventilated. However, some practitioners have been lulled into a false sense of ...

In patients undergoing colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer, deeper sedation using the anesthetic drug propofol may improve detection of "serrated" polyps—a type of precancerous lesion ...

A new German study has shown that the driving skills of patients sedated with propofol return to normal within 2 h of an endoscopic procedure. Patients were randomly allocated to undergo ...