Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative, and if used by humans, it causes almost instant blackouts and life-threatening ...

Medetomidine, a veterinary sedative, mixed into fentanyl has sent thousands to hospitals, not only for overdose but for ...

The FDA has released a warning about the use of general anesthetic and sedation drugs in children and pregnant women. 1. The FDA safety announcement warns that recent studies suggest repeated or ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine ...

Droperidol, a sedation drug, is safe an effective to use to calm violent and aggressive patients in the ER even though it garnered a black box warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ...

A coroner has raised concerns about a lack of national guidelines for the use of the sedative Propofol. Antonio ...

Medetomidine, a powerful animal tranquilizer is making its way into the drug opioid crisis. Medetomidine is a veterinary sedative not approved for human consumption but there are reports of outbreaks ...

LOS ANGELES - Xylazine, an animal sedative drug, is currently flooding the illicit opioid market, resulting in overdoses and deaths. In November, the Food and Drug Administration put out a warning for ...

Doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine ...

Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...