The sedation issue: accumulating data while failing to advance towards a solution?

Rev Esp Enferm Dig

Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital La Zarzuela, ESPAÑA.

Published: November 2018

My reading of the monographic issue of April 2018, devoted by REED to sedation in digestive endoscopy, evoked in methe reflections written in this Scientific Lettter.

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