I would urge you to read https://www.aana.com/docs/default-source/practice-aana-com-web-documents-(all)/professional-practice-manual/discharge-after-sedation-or

I would urge you to read https://www.aana.com/docs/default-source/practice-aana-com-web-documents-(all)/professional-practice-manual/discharge-after-sedation-or-anesthesia-on-the-day-of-the-procedure.pdf https://www.aana.com/docs/default-source/practice-aana-com-w... The title is "Discharge After Sedation or Anesthesia on the Day of the Procedure: Patient Transportation With or Without a Responsible Adult" from the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology The checklist starts out with: > Review and comply with federal, state, and local law and regulations as well as facility accreditation requirements > Engage the facility’s legal counsel, risk manager and/or similar role to review and address liability and legal concerns. There are significant liability risks for a hospital to discharge a person who has been sedated to anyone other than an adult who has the obligation to give care to the person if needed. This includes things like discharging a person who has been sedated to a ride share who then robs them (you are free to imagine worse situations). As this has happened with intoxicated people being driven home from a bar, hospitals are rightly concerned that if they discharge someone to a ride share, they may be incurring significant liability of their own. Going back to my sedation dentistry experiences, the person who is going to take me home has to be there with me at the start while I am not yet sedated and there were a number of forms that I filled out when I became a patient of theirs identifying the people who could drive me. The laws around the requirements and liability for a medical facility to discharge person who has been sedated do not give much wiggle room for the hospital to get out of that liability.