A Safety Study of AQUAVAN® (Fospropofol Disodium) Injection for Sedation During Minor Surgical Procedures.
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2007-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Very often patients receive medications before a diagnostic, therapeutic, or surgical
procedure to help them relax, keep them calm, and to relieve them from pain. This is called
procedural sedation. With respect to minimal-to-moderate procedural sedation for minor
surgical procedures, a patient is first given a pain-relief medication (analgesic) and then a
medication to help him/her relax and keep calm (sedative). AQUAVAN is a chemically modified
form of propofol, a commonly-used sedative drug. AQUAVAN acts like a slow release version of
propofol, and is being studied to see if it can safely keep patients calm and relaxed during
their medical procedure and then allow for rapid and clear-headed recovery.