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Recovery after intravenous sedation
Author(s) -
KORTTILA K.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1976.tb11862.x
Subject(s) - medicine , psychomotor learning , sedation , anesthesia , diazepam , cognition , psychiatry
Twelve healthy subjects received intravenously 0-15 mg/kg of diazepam twice, with a two-week interval between doses. They were tested in a cross-over manner before and after the injection either with a clinical test battery plus paper and pencil tests, or with a carefully selected psychomotor test battery having a correlation to real traffic behavior. Neither the clinical tests nor the paper and pencil tests demonstrated impairment of performance 1/2 and 2 1/2 hours after the injection, whereas the psychomotor tests revealed considerable impairment of reactive and co-ordinative skills 2 1/2 hours after the injection. The results stress the importance of the presence of an escort when patients are discharged from hospital after outpatient anaesthesia or sedation.