Dexmedetomidine provides less body motion and respiratory depression during sedation in double-balloon enteroscopy than midazolam

Dexmedetomidine provides less body motion and respiratory depression during sedation in double-balloon enteroscopy than midazolam

Objectives: Patients undergoing double-balloon enteroscopy require sedatives such as midazolam; however, patient’s body motion often hampers the outcome of double-balloon enteroscopy. Recently, dexmedetomidine has been used for endoscopic sedation and was reported to effectively reduce body motion....

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Oshima, Masanao Nakamura, Osamu Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamura, Kohei Funasaka, Eizaburo Ohno, Hiroki Kawashima, Ryoji Miyahara, Hidemi Goto, Yoshiki Hirooka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-09-01
Series:SAGE Open Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312117729920

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https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312117729920

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