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Intravenous sedation in 200 geriatric patients undergoing office oral surgery
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Anesthesiology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond 23298, USA.
Anesthesia Progress
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Two hundred geriatric patients ranging from age 65 to 92 yr (mean age 72 yr) were evaluated for office oral surgery and intravenous sedation. Surgical time ranged from 6 to 129 min. Monitored anesthesia care was utilized for the administration of fentanyl, midazolam or diazepam, and methohexital. No serious complications were seen and no patients were hospitalized.