They're under heavy sedation, may be hours before they come to.

She's been sound asleep for the past two hours under heavy sedation.

Under heavy sedation he eventually recovered, and told them what had happened.

The first solution to pop into my mind was, of course, heavy sedation.

He was like an automaton or a patient under heavy sedation.

Workers for the lunar mines could make the trip under heavy sedation.

Many procedures can be performed on the standing horse with heavy sedation alone.

The inter-stellar passage, as always, had been made under heavy sedation.

I felt as if I was emerging from heavy sedation.

In the meantime, I think heavy sedation is in order.

After that, he was reported to be in a critical condition, unable to communicate and under heavy sedation.

'The man's badly injured and will need heavy sedation before he can be moved.

Kennard told me, once, that most long passages have to be made under heavy sedation.

He sees the bedroom in which his two sons lie sleeping under heavy sedation.

In the meantime we'll treat the symp-toms with heavy sedation.

Patricia was under heavy sedation at her home where she is being comforted by relatives.

More recent formulas easily allow a simple heavy sedation, usually intravenous.

In some cases, where the soldier was unconscious or under heavy sedation, this was easy.

Soon afterward, I put you under heavy sedation.

She looked old and shrunken, and obviously under heavy sedation.

Her last flashback had terminated only after exhaustion and heavy sedation.

T'Shael had been under heavy sedation for a full day, and her survival was still uncertain.

She's under heavy sedation and incapable of supporting any additional strain."

She was under heavy sedation for several days at St. Mary's Hospital.

He cited long periods of heavy sedation and misery for patients and their families.

Gilmarina had been sent up to the ship with the other children, under deep sedation.

She was initially reported to be under deep sedation in an induced coma.

To keep Jenna perfectly still during dissection, he must put her in deep sedation.

It is the classic induction agent for deep sedation during painful procedures.

In deep sedation, the patient may not exhibit any signs of consciousness and therefore be unresponsive to stimulation.

Deep Sedation - Purposeful response to repeated or painful stimulation.

However, if mechanical ventilation becomes necessary, lorazepam may be used to facilitate deep sedation.

She remained quiet, in deep sedation.

If a large area or volume of fat is being treated, general anesthesia or deep sedation with a local anesthetic may be used.

Alcohol is particularly dangerous when taken with barbiturates or tranquillisers, causing deep sedation, a drop in blood pressure and possible breathing failure.

The certification also says doctor approved to rescue patients from deep sedation, manage compromised airway; provide adequate ventilation.

It has been commonly used to induce deep sedation, "twilight sleep" or general anesthesia for oral surgery and dentistry.

It is more heavily relied upon in children, in whom lacrimal irrigation is impossible without deep sedation.

There are different degrees of central nervous system depression, each corresponding to a level of relaxation which ranges from minimal, moderate, to deep sedation.

The Victorian Coroner found that Sinclair had contributed to the death of a patient given deep sedation therapy in 1987.

First-trimester procedures can generally be performed using local anesthesia, while second-trimester methods may require deep sedation or general anesthesia.

Done while you were paralyzed, checked again after your spinal cord fused but done while you were in deep sedation.

In the United Kingdom, deep sedation is considered to be a part of the spectrum of general anesthesia, as opposed to conscious sedation.

Similarly, methotrimeprazine (a very sedating neuroleptic) is also used to achieve deep sedation in doses of 6.25 to 25 mg subcutaneously or intravenously every 8 hours.

Flunitrazepam was first synthesized in 1972 by Roche in Europe and was used in hospitals when deep sedation was needed.

When asked about administering propofol through an IV drip, she said that only occurs if the patient is intubated and the desired effect is deep sedation.

In this level called Deep sedation/analgesia, a drug-induced depression of consciousness during which the patient cannot be easily aroused, but responds purposefully following repeated or painful stimulation.

The boundary between what dentists call "deep sedation" and full general anesthesia, where the ability to breathe effectively is lost, is a fuzzy one that is easily traversed.

The effect of extremely deep sedation differs from clinical brain death by the presence of delta waves and the absence of EKG artifacts (Fig 8).

Joint-ill should be vigorously treated with a prolonged course of broad spectrum antibiotics and often flushing out of the affected joints with sterile saline, under deep sedation.