Quotes About Sedation

additional flumazenil is unlikely to have an effect. Sedation can return in 1 to 3 percent of persons treated with flumazenil. It can be prevented or treated by giving repeated dosages of flumazenil at 20-minute intervals. For repeat treatment, no more than 1 mg (given as 0.5 mg a minute) should be given at any one time, and no more than 3 mg should be given in any 1 hour.

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.

Whenever I heard certain people losing their shit about Trump my first reaction was always, You need to be sedated, you need to see a shrink, you need to stop letting the "bad man" help you in the process of victimizing your whole life.

To my surprise, I discovered that anesthesiologists are a bit in the dark themselves. "How anesthesia works has been a mystery since the discovery of anesthesia itself," writes Michael Alkire, an anesthesiologist at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, in the new Encyclopedia of Consciousness.

Whatever was in the syringe was taking hold of her again, pulling her down, and she felt herself swoon. There was some comfort when she closed her eyes again, and she knew she wouldn't last very long before she passed out again.

Do you want me to have them sedate you until it's over?

We weren't going anywhere, Nick said with a smile. He was trying to sound charming, but instead wound up sounding heavily sedated.

Codeine . . . bourbon.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

On December 11,1934, Wilson's drinking came to a screeching halt. On that day he was readmitted to Towns Hospital, sedated, and subjected to Dr. Silkworth's "belladonna cure," a treatment regimen which included morphine and other psychoactive drugs in addition to belladonna (which in large doses is a powerful hallucinogen).5 While under the influence of the "cure," Bill Wilson experienced his "spiritual awakening.

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

Steve Jobs chafed at not being in control, and he sometimes hallucinated or became angry. Even when he was barely conscious, his strong personality came through. At one point the pulmonologist tried to put a mask over his face when he was deeply sedated. Jobs ripped it off and mumbled that he hated the design and refused to wear it. Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked.

Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

His hand comes up with a cloth smelling of cloying sweetness. He presses it over my nose and mouth. I feel my limbs go loose, and a moment later, I feel nothing at all.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

El cloroformo dilata el pecho a la primera inspiración; la segunda, inunda la boca de saliva; las extremidades hormiguean, a la tercera; a la cuarta, los labios, a la par de las ideas, se hinchan, y luego pasan cosas singulares.

lulled by the doses of morphine and scopolamine administered

Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.