This article highlights the considerations and increasing demand for dedicated personnel focused on monitoring and delivering sedation during pediatric cardiac catheterization.
Dedicated sedation staffing merits evaluation in pediatric cardiac catheterization labs; leaves open prospective outcome data on safety and efficiency.
Sedation for pediatric cardiac catheterization is a common requirement in many institutions. As the field of cardiac catheterization has evolved, the provision of sedation for these procedures has been varied. Increasingly the demand is for dedicated personnel focused on monitoring and delivery of sedation while in the catheterization suite. This article describes the considerations one must use when undertaking these cases.
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