The investigators prospectively included ambulatory patients aged > 18 years with an indication for flexible bronchoscopy. Bronchoscopic procedures were performed by residents of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine subspecialty under the supervision of an attendant professor in a university-tertiary-referral center in northern Mexico. Patients with tracheostomy, known allergy to drugs used during procedural sedation, inability to answer the satisfaction questionnaires, psychiatric illness, pregnancy, or with ASA class IV or V, were excluded.