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Procedural sedation: what would the patient like?
  1. Gavin Lloyd1,
  2. Alasdair Gray2
  1. 1Emergency Department, Royal Devon & Exeter Hosptial Wonford, Exeter, UK
  2. 2Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gavin Lloyd L162, Emergency Department, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital Wonford, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK; gavin.lloyd{at}nhs.net

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-205247

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    • Contributors Both authors have collaborated fully to produce this editorial.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.