IV Conscious Sedation
Conscious sedation is performed intravenously, when medically necessary, to make our patients safer for a more effective and more comfortable experience during a procedure to try to help with chronic pain. IV or intravenous means through the vein, and conscious sedation is just that. It is medicine that's placed through the vein and into the vein to produce a level of conscious sedation. This means the patient does their own breathing, they produce their own blood pressure, they can respond, and they can talk. Many times, they don't remember very much, sometimes they remember a little, and sometimes they remember more, but overall they're much more comfortable with the intravenous conscious sedation than they are without it.
Sometimes it's not necessary. If it's not medically necessary, it doesn't need to be done and local anesthesia is utilized to make patients very comfortable from beginning to end. IV conscious sedation does have risk, just like anything else, and those risks and their benefits (if it is medically necessary) will be discussed with the medical provider or the physician in charge of care.
Many patients confuse or conflate the difference between intravenous conscious sedation and general anesthesia. As an interventional pain specialist, who also is board certified in anesthesiology, there is a very big difference between IV conscious sedation and general anesthesia. The main difference (and it's a big one) is that general anesthesia is what is usually performed when you have more of a traditional surgery, such as heart surgery, intestinal surgery, hip replacement, etc. Those type of surgeries do require the patient to be completely unconscious, but to render a patient completely unconscious, the anesthesiologist needs to breathe for the patient, needs to help the patient with their blood pressure, their heart rate, and provide a variety of physiological and other vital bodily support systems. That’s a very different procedure than IV conscious sedation, which is what sometimes is medically required here at Javery Pain Institute when receiving certain pain procedures, to keep the patient comfortable. Conscious sedation is just that. It is intravenous medicine used to keep the patient conscious enough to breathe on their own and support their own airway during the length of the procedure.
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