Midazolam is a short acting benzodiazepine, with anxiolytic, anticonvulsant and mild sedative, skeletal muscle relaxant and anterograde amnesic properties. Due to its fast onset of action and limited duration, it is the best in class compound over other benzodiazepines for the use in (1) mild or conscious sedation and in (2) acute epileptic seizure treatment.
Midazolam is considered to be safe and effective. It is used daily on a worldwide basis several hundred times for the 2 indications.