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Guidelines for sedation and/or analgesia by non-anaesthesiology doctors

SECTION and BOARD OF ANAESTHESIOLOGY1, European Union of Medical Specialists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2007

J. T. A. Knape ,
H. Adriaensen ,
H. van Aken ,
W. P. Blunnie ,
C. Carlsson ,
M. Dupont  and
T. Pasch
J. T. A. Knape*
Affiliation:
University Medical Center Utrecht, Division of Perioperative Care and Emergency Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, The Netherlands
H. Adriaensen
Affiliation:
Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Department of Anesthesiology, Wilrijkstraat, Edegem, Belgium
H. van Aken
Affiliation:
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Albert Schweitzer-strasze, Münster, Germany
W. P. Blunnie
Affiliation:
Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Division of Anaesthesia, Eccles Street, Dublin, Ireland
C. Carlsson
Affiliation:
University Hospital MAS Anesthesi-kliniken, Department of Anaesthesiology, Ingång, Malmö, Sweden
M. Dupont
Affiliation:
Hôpital St Joseph, Service de Reanimation, Boulevard de Louvain, Marseille, France
T. Pasch
Affiliation:
Universitäts Spital Zürich, Institut für Anästhesiologie, Rämistrasse, Zürich, Switzerland
*
Correspondence to: Johannes T. A. Knape, Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Perioperative Care and Emergency Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail: j.t.a.knape@umcutrecht.nl; Tel: +31302509677; Fax: +31302541828
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Summary

The still ever increasing demand for sedation and/or analgesia for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures puts high pressure on anaesthesia care providers all over Europe. Since the capacity to provide that service by anaesthetists is limited in most European countries, guidelines for non-anaesthetist doctors who want to sedate patients on a high-quality level and especially in a safe way are mandatory. This paper, produced by a working party of the European Board of Anaesthesiology of the European Union of Medical Specialists (EUMS/UEMS), gives direction to those practitioners who feel responsibilities in this area of medicine. Close cooperation with anaesthesiologists seems mandatory to achieve and sustain a high-quality standard for our patients undergoing medical or surgical procedures under sedation.

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Guidelines
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European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 24 , Issue 7 , July 2007 , pp. 563 - 567
Copyright
Copyright © European Society of Anaesthesiology 2007

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Footnotes

1

The areas of expertise of anaesthesiology are Perioperative Anaesthesia Care, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Pain Medicine and Reanimation.

*

Working Party on Sedation by non-anaesthesiology doctors

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