Our Safety Net
- Standard monitoring
- Capnography
- Nurse ventilation confirmation
- Nurse - patient interface
- Airway rescue
nurse
gastroenterologist
respiratory technician
emergency room physician
anesthesiologist
Rescue Drugs
- Atropine
- Ephedrine
- Is it really ephedrine?
- 15 mg. IV
- Oxygen
Observations:
- No need for atropine in EGD.
- No need for atropine in colonoscope withdrawal.
- Bradycardia usually requires no treatment.
- We've seen simultaneous hypotension and bradycardia
requiring both rescue drugs only once.
- Frailer patients and deeper sedation require more
frequent BP determinations.
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