1. Intravenous diazepam: an improvement in pre-endoscopic medication
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Leo Castiglioni, Marcel Patterson, and Tom S. Allen
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Meperidine ,genetic structures ,Premedication ,Amnesia ,Patient response ,Injections, Intramuscular ,Patient Cooperation ,Placebos ,Gastroscopy ,medicine ,Humans ,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging ,Intravenous diazepam ,Aged ,Clinical Trials as Topic ,Diazepam ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Gastroenterology ,Middle Aged ,Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy ,Surgery ,Anesthesia ,Injections, Intravenous ,Female ,Esophagoscopy ,medicine.symptom ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
Diazepam appears to be a very useful agent in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Titrating the dose to patient response should increase the incidence of amnesia and keep to a minimum the number of endoscopies abandoned due to lack of patient cooperation.
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- 1973
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