Benzodiazepine and benzodiazepine-like drugs Benzodiazepines are widely used in clinical anesthesiology as anxiolytics, amnestics, and sedative–hypnotics.[ 49 ] They are less commonly used as anesthetic induction agents because at the doses typically required to produce anesthesia, cardiovascular depression may be significant and recovery prolonged.[ 9 ] Among anesthesiologists, midazolam is the most commonly used benzodiazepine because it has a relatively short duration of action.
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