Lichte intraveneuze sedatie met midazolam door de tandarts

Approximately 800,000 Dutch people refrain from going to the dentist because of fear. Behavioural therapy, a psychological approach to treating anxiety, is taught extensively at the various Dutch universities and is used in dental practice in the Netherlands. For medicinal treatment, dentists in the Netherlands use nitrous oxide sedation and orally administered benzodiazepines. For the intravenous administration of sedatives Dutch dentists are almost entirely dependent on an anaesthesiologist. Light intravenous sedation with midazolam can be used to make anxious patients more comfortable. Dutch dentists can apply light sedation with midazolam intravenously in adult patients themselves, subject to a wide range of conditions. Abstract available from the publisher