The use of oral midazolam for perioperative anxiolysis of healthy patients undergoing Mohs surgery: Conclusions from randomized controlled and prospective studies

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 310-322

  Ravitskiy, Larisa ^a   Phillips, Pamela K ^b   Roenigk, Randall K ^b   Weaver, Amy L ^b   Killian, Jill M ^b   Hoverson Schott, Alyssa ^b   Otley, Clark C ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; anxiolysis; BCC; hypoxia; midazolam; Mohs surgery; SCC; visual analog scale

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; PLACEBO;

AGED; ALERTNESS; AMNESIA; ANXIETY; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING RATE; CHEMOSURGERY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART RATE; HICCUP; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INSOMNIA; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NIGHTMARE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSE OXIMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOMNOLENCE; SPEECH DISORDER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VITAL SIGN; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78751502466     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2010.02.038     Document Type: Article

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