January 25, 2011 (San Diego, California) — Propofol infusion syndrome is a real but thankfully rare entity that can be prevented with a simple protocol, researchers reported here at the Society of ...

A coroner has raised concerns about the lack of national guidelines around the use of the sedative Propofol following the death of a teenage boy. Antonio Galisi-Swallow, 15, died at Leeds General ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2009;66(10):908-915. As critically ill patients receive numerous drugs to treat a wide variety of complicated health problems, they are at high risk for adverse drug events.

Swallow, 15, died with "no privacy, naked, bleeding and pierced with the tubes" after days of being administered the sedative ...

Reason for posting: Propofol — an anesthetic agent1 — may cause life-threatening adverse events when used to sedate critically ill children.2 The problem was first noted in 1992, when a report was ...

Oct. 29 -- TUESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Use of the sedative propofol is associated with a high risk for complications and even death in patients with prolonged seizures, according to a study ...

Eric Wooltorton's report about propofol1 reiterates the well-known fact that the use of propofol for sedation in critically ill children has been associated with a life-threatening adverse reaction ...

To explore the mechanisms underlying the propofol infusion syndrome (PRIS), a potentially fatal complication during prolonged propofol infusion. Male rabbits under mechanical ventilation through ...

Swallow, 15, died with "no privacy, naked, bleeding and pierced with the tubes" after days of being administered the sedative ...

Propofol is one of the most used drugs for general anesthesia, but the findings of a new study suggest that the medication may also be beneficial for conscious sedation. Researchers from the U.K.

A new study comparing the effectiveness of propofol-remifentanil and propofol-ketamine combinations for the removal of all four third molars found that the latter is a less-than-perfect alternative to ...