Journal of Perioperative & Critical Intensive Care Nursing
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Siem Klok

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  Procedural Sedation and the Risk of Hypoxemia
  Author(s): Bram Thiel1*, Roos A Kraima, Siem Klok, Rutger M Schrier and Marc B GodfriedBram Thiel1*, Roos A Kraima, Siem Klok, Rutger M Schrier and Marc B Godfried
  
  Background: Today’s hospital care shows an increase in therapeutic and diagnostic procedures performed outside the operating room under procedural sedation, rather than in the operating room. Yet, despite this shift in attitudes, there is evident paucity of studies examining the nature of the interventions performed under procedural sedation. The primary objective of this study was the identification of interventions performed under sedation outside the operating room, focusing on those associated with hypoxemia below SpO2 90%. Methods: From January the 1st 2011 up to December the 31st 2013, 2,328 diagnostic procedures in the outpatient setting of a general hospital were retrospectively analysed for hypoxemia with SpO2 below 90% and below 85% for at least one minute and SpO2 below 90% over 2 min. The asse.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2471-9870.1000127

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