OBJECTIVE: There is growing demand for safe and effective procedural sedation in
pediatric facilities nationally. Currently, these needs are being met by a variety of providers …

The direction of pediatric sedation is no longer solely under the leadership of
anesthesiologists. The use of anesthetic agents, including propofol, have been administered …

Purpose To determine the agents used by emergency medicine (EM) physicians in pediatric
procedural sedation and the associated adverse events (AEs) and to provide …

Changes in technology, training, medication, and resource availability will continually alter
the dynamic of procedural sedation. Impacts may be greatest for children, who are more …

Providing relief from pain and anxiety associated with diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures has become an ethical imperative in children, as well as a measured quality of …

Objectives To determine the characteristics of children who met the risk criteria for potential
neurotoxicity defined by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA; 2016 warning) in a …

Objectives Deep sedation enables effective performance of imaging or procedures in
children, but failed sedation still occurs. We desired to determine the factors that were …

Objective. Guidelines for risk reduction during procedural sedation from the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) rely on …

The growing number of medical procedures performed in children that require cooperation
of patients, lack of movement, anxiolysis or/and analgesia triggers the increased need for …

Background Children often require relief of pain and anxiety when undergoing diagnostic or
therapeutic procedures in the emergency department (ED). Procedural sedation and …