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Procedural sedation and analgesia is commonly used in the emergency medicine in addition to operating room and non operating room procedures. It is a technique in which a sedating/ dissociative medication is administered often in combination with analgesics. It allows a patient to undergo painful procedures by inducing decreased levels of consciousness without airway intervention as the patient ventilates spontaneously. Additionally, airway protective reflexes are not compromised by this process.

There is a spectrum of sedation created in 2001 by the ASA that categorizes the level of sedation. This categorizes a continuum of sedation into four groups. They are miild, moderate, and deep as well as dissociative.

Mild is anxiolysis, inhibition of anxiety. This is usually achieved with one drug and maintains consciousness.

Look more into procedural sedation by Berger.

The article is very clear and concise. I think you did a wonderful job avoiding jargon where possible. I like how you used ample hyperlinks even for things that might seem simple. It allows different types of reader to understand the article even if they don’t have medical knowledge. This was especially of use in your diagnosis and treatment sections. I think it would be easy to get overly scientific in these sections. I felt that everything in the article was relevant to the topic and nothing really distracted me. One thing that I thought might be of use is arrows on the X-ray images. I feel people in the general public may get more out of those with something clearly identifying what the image is trying to display. Its minor and I know it can be difficult with the image restrictions Wikipedia has.

The article presents the information without expressing any opinions or trying to convince the reader of anything. There is nothing can be viewed as nonfactual or biased.

I liked how you cited after just about every sentence. I think this removes any doubt about the origin of any information within the article. All of the sources are recent and reliable. I believe most of these sources are not publically available but I believe that is to be expected with this type of topic.

One thought I had was if some info about the complications of some of the treatments options, such as rigid bronchoscopy, should be included. It may not be 100% relatable, and is probably in the hyperlink but was one of the things I found myself wondering about.

Overall, I thought the organization makes sense and it was well done