I saw Versed used recently when my 17 y/o had to have his dislocated
shoulder put back into place.  It was administered IV and when he finally
got a sufficiently large dose, my 'baby' - all 6'1" 190 lbs of football
player - was snoring away.  He continued to sleep well for about 1-1/2
hours, then roused *quickly.*  One hour later, when discharged from the ER,
he felt it was an egregious insult to his manhood to ride in a wheelchair
to the front doors despite his nervous mom saying "You could still get
dizzy... I don't want to catch you.... sit back down in that chair!"

Seems it would be reasonable to use guidelines similar to those for general
anesthesia - if the mom's awake and aware, the drug has substantially
cleared her system.  I haven't heard of it being used for dental
procedures, but my guess would be that the goal wouldn't necessarily be the
relaxed "coma" my Michael was in.

And I know anecdotal evidence doesn't count, so maybe the dentist could be
advised to do the math.  A half-life of 1.9 hours means that .... (whoops,
no calculator) well, I got tired of doing the math, but at 16 hours,
there'd be less than 1/256th left of the original dose.

Mary Renard
who hopes her son's remaining football career (all 3 games of it) is
uneventful....
Vienna Virginia  USA

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