Safe sedation practice in the emergency department
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Safe sedation practice in the emergency department

Lynne Pearce Health journalist

Essential facts

Procedural sedation (PSA) is used to help manage short and potentially painful procedures, such as wound exploration, suturing, incision and drainage of abscesses, manipulations of fractures and dislocations.

Emergency Nurse. 29, 2, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/en.29.2.11.s9

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