Quotes About Sedation

could have been chloral," Steve said. "Chloral hydrate. The stuff they use when they want to give somebody a mickey.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.

They must have pumped him full of some high-test elephant tranquilizer, considering how tough it was for Paolo to return to the land of the living.

The dog did not move as the needle was inserted, and, as the barbiturate began to flow into the vein, the anxious expression left his face and the muscles began to relax. By the time the injection was finished, the breathing had stopped.

He knew as deeply as he knew anything that sedation was the prelude to anxiety, stimulation the prelude to exhaustion and consolation the prelude to disappointment, and so he lay on the red velvet sofa and did nothing to distract himself from the news of his mother's death.

The first time my mom was hospitalized, she was forcibly sedated before I was admitted to see her. When I arrived, someone handed me a plastic bag containing her belongings: the ruined clothes that had been cut off her body with scissors.

If I want to go to sleep, click on a procedural, put me right out.

didn't," Chris told him. "She was also sedated when last we spoke?" "Yes, she was." "I thought I saw her at her window that day." "Well, you're mistaken." "It could be. Perhaps so. I'm not sure." "Listen, why are you asking all this?" "Well, a clear

Management essentials in the ICU: FASTHUG F=feeding. A=analgesia. S=sedation. T=thrombo-embolism prophylaxis. H=head of the bed elevated (30–45°). U=ulcer prophylaxis (PPI or H2 antagonists). G=glucose control.

Several sedation scales—the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS), Adaptation to the Intensive Care Environment (ATICE) tool, and the Minnesota Sedation Assessment Tool (MSAT)—as well as tools for assessment of analgesia in the ICU, such as the visual analog scale, the numeric rating scale, behavioral pain scale,7,8 and critical care pain observation scale, have been developed (Figure 3-1).

It needs to be stated again and again that all opiates without exception are fundamentally depressants, so that the normal pattern, as dosage is increased, is from torpor to sleep to coma (ending in death, if there is an overdose).

Charlotte poured a stiff Irish coffee for herself, wanting both stimulation and sedation. It didn't work, in fact it backfired, making her antsy but confused. An anti-Irish coffee, must be an English coffee.

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed.

But all such facts are remote and unsubstantial compared with the near, felt fact of a craving, here and now, for release or sedation, for a drink or a smoke.

Racism has been for everyone like a horrible, tragic car crash, and we've all been heavily sedated from it. If we don't come into consciousness of this tragedy, there's going to be a violent awakening we don't want. The question is, can we wake up?

Klonopin ruined my lie. It takes away your drive, and in the morning, you don't want to get out of bed, because you feel so groggy. I don't even know what it's like to feel normal. This is my world. Things don't get me as excited as most people because I'm in a constant state of sedation. It should never have been prescribed for long-term use.

Twenty-twenty-twenty-four hours to goI wanna be sedatedNothing to do, nowhere to goI wanna be sedated

The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life

The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.

administration of medications more frequently than the elimination half-life leads to drug accumulation, medications such as diazepam and flurazepam accumulate with daily dosing, eventually resulting in increased daytime sedation.

administration of medications more frequently than the elimination half-life leads to drug accumulation, medications such as diazepam and flurazepam accumulate with daily dosing, eventually resulting in increased daytime sedation. Some benzodiazepines (e.g., oxazepam) are conjugated directly by glucuronidation and are excreted.