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 ...

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 ...

Propofol sedation by nonanesthesiologists is still a highly controversial issue despite the fact that numerous studies have approved this sedation regimen for gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Propofol is an alternative to moderate sedation—sometimes called "conscious" sedation—for colonoscopy. "Propofol results in deeper sedation, and also begins to work and wears off more quickly ...

A doctor indicted for illegally administering propofol, a powerful anesthetic commonly used for surgeries, to disgraced actor Yoo Ah-in and using the substance himself was convicted by a court and ...

Researchers have found in a new clinical trial comparing sedation methods for patients with moderate to severe ARDS that ...