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ReviewDrug design, development and therapy2026

Optimal Dosing Strategies for Remimazolam Across Diverse Patient Populations: A Clinical Narrative Review.

Amina M Illias, Yung-Fong Tsai, Shao-Chun Wu

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Review in Drug design, development and therapy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Amina M IlliasDepartment of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan.ORCID 0009-0002-9430-3776
Yung-Fong Tsai *Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-3121-4840
Shao-Chun Wu *College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0984-6921

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Remimazolam is an ultra-short-acting benzodiazepine that is hydrolyzed by carboxylesterase 1 (CES1) to the inactive metabolite CNS 7054. Since regulatory approval in 2020 it has been adopted globally for procedural sedation and general anesthesia, supported by an expanding evidence base of randomized trials, population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling studies, dose-finding sequential-allocation analyses, and meta-analyses. Synthesizing 92 studies published between January 2020 and April 2026, this narrative review defines dose optimization across diverse populations. For adult procedural sedation, a fixed 5 mg initial bolus followed by 2.5 mg maintenance titrations achieves moderate sedation with a hemodynamic and respiratory profile that compares favorably with propofol, whereas general anesthesia requires an induction rate of 6 to 12 mg kg

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BenzodiazepinesHypnotics and SedativesDose-Response Relationship, DrugHumansBenzodiazepinesHypnotics and Sedativesremimazolamdosingpharmacodynamicspopulation pharmacokineticsprocedural sedationremimazolamspecial populations

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PMID42836182
PMCPMC13637680

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