deep sedation
Heavy medical sleep
Deep sedation is a medically induced state of depressed consciousness in which a patient cannot be easily roused and may require assistance breathing.
It falls between moderate sedation and general anesthesia on the spectrum of sedation depth.
Deep sedation is used for painful procedures where the patient should remain unaware: The colonoscopy was performed under deep sedation.
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- going underFailing or submerging
- out coldFully unconscious
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
- twilightLight after sunset
propofol · drowsy · knocked out · numbness · surgery · surgical team · breathing · ventilator · monitor · IV · drip · calm · stillness · dreamless · fentanyl · benzodiazepine · intubation · recovery
- sedationtwilight sleep, chemical restraint, propofol, fentanyl, ketamine
- anesthesiaanesthesiologist, general anesthesia, local anesthesia, spinal anesthesia, epidural
- sedation levelsoversedation, general anesthesia, local anesthesia, twilight, twilight sleep
- dental anesthesiadental anesthesia, local anesthesia, local anesthetic, nitrous oxide, laughing gas
deep sedationlight sedation
Partial medically-induced drowsiness
conscious sedation · wide awake · unsedated · awake · general anesthesia
deep sedationwide awake
Totally alert and attentive
wakefulness · alertness · vigilance · hyperalertness · arousal
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