# OnCo record midazolam (drug). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/drugs/midazolam/>
  a schema:Drug ;
  onco:kind "drug" ;
  schema:identifier "midazolam" ;
  schema:name "Midazolam"@en ;
  schema:description "Midazolam is a fast, short-acting sedative. In cancer care it is used to keep people comfortable during procedures such as bronchoscopy, and in palliative care as the first medicine for sedation when suffering cannot be relieved any other way."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/drugs/midazolam/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-11"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midazolam> ;
  schema:citation <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=06e4f754-72df-4eb4-aaed-b538524f5277>, <https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163231220225>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng31/chapter/Recommendations>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg112/chapter/Recommendations> ;
  onco:status "approved" ;
  onco:tag "supportive", "generic", "supportive-care-gaps-2026-11" ;
  onco:modality "Benzodiazepine sedative (injection, oral, buccal)" ;
  schema:alternateName "Versed / Hypnovel / Buccolam" ;
  onco:approval "US 1985: Sedation, anxiolysis and amnesia for procedures (including oncology procedures); induction of general anaesthesia; sedation of intubated patients" ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/drugs/levomepromazine/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/propofol/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/lidocaine/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/palliative-care/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/palliative-sedation/> .