Pediatric sedation outside the operating room is generally safe from serious adverse outcomes in organized settings, provided systems are prepared to manage less serious events.
Our data indicate that pediatric sedation/anesthesia for procedures outside the operating room is unlikely to yield serious adverse outcomes in a collection of institutions with highly motivated and organized sedation services. However, the safety of this practice depends on the systems' ability to manage less serious events.
Cravero et al. (Fri,) studied this question.