Conscious Sedation: An Observation.

ABSTRACT

Conscious sedation is a drug-induced depression of consciousness while the patient remains awake to respond to the verbal commands. Certain diagnostic and therapeutic procedures can be carried out under local anesthesia with sedation and analgesia without any requirement for intervention of maintenance of cardiorespiratory function. The hemodynamic status and the level of consciousness needed for the procedures remain continuously under the vigilance and control of a qualified anesthesiologist. An essential component of conscious sedation or monitored anesthesia care, which is a planned procedure, is the assessment and management of a patient’s actual or anticipated physiological derangements or medical problems that may occur during the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure carried out under sedation.