Voorbeelden van sedating

• Therefore, we recommend sedating irritable patients prior to echocardiographic evaluation.

• The prescription of sedating medications in high dosages is a common response to terminal restlessness symptoms, and may sometimes be a last resort.

• Parenteral narcotics are too sedating to be relied on for most parturients.

• An alternative strategy in agitated patients is to switch from haloperidol to a more sedating antipsychotic such as chlorpromazine.

• First, a good hospice nurse would immediately address the patient's pain and agony with whatever means available, including sedating pain medication if that were the only resort.

• Fluoxitene in a dose of 20 mg daily is less sedating.

• Nasal administration of midazolam is a reliable and efficient way of sedating children in a diagnostic unit.

• Olanzapine is, through its strong antihistaminergic activity, the more sedating one.