Key result
Review outlines guidelines and medications for safe pediatric procedural sedation outside the operating room.
Why the study?
Pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia use has increased over 20 years, requiring pediatricians to understand safe sedation practices outside the operating room.
Provides a primer for pediatric practitioners on the safe and optimal use of procedural sedation outside the operating room.
Alerts clinicians to life-threatening sedation risks in children; leaves open standardized non-OR protocols amid evolving technologies.
There has been an increasing use of pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia over the past 20 years, along with numerous medical and technological developments. Sedation can facilitate the smooth completion of otherwise stressful procedures, but it also can be associated with life-threatening complications. Pediatric practitioners need to be familiar with the basic tenets of providing safe and optimal sedation outside the operating room. This review focuses on the current understanding of sedation-related classification, guidelines, and medications, and discusses some special considerations for procedural sedation in common clinical settings. [Pediatr Ann. 2018;47(6):e254-e258.].
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Shobhit Jain (2018) conducted a review in Pediatric procedural sedation. Pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia was evaluated. This review outlines the basic tenets of providing safe and optimal pediatric procedural sedation outside the operating room, including classification, guidelines, and medications.
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