pediatric emergency department Page 1 Conscious sedation in the pediatric emergency
department John S. Andrews, MD Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA …

Background Studies that have attempted to define the incidence of aspiration or pulmonary
complications during sedation/anesthesia of children with respect to nil per os (NPO) status …

Background and Objective: Children often need procedural sedation for painful procedures.
There are few data on type of provider, site of sedation, and agents used for procedural …

Sedation and analgesia in pediatric patients for procedures outside the operating room are
becoming more frequent as health care is being driven to be more cost effective and" …

Background: Information about the existence and organization of pediatric sedation services
in North America is not available. We conducted a survey to collect this information from …

BACKGROUND: Pediatric subspecialists routinely provide procedural sedation outside the
operating room. No large study has reported trends in outpatient pediatric procedural …

Objective: The goal of this study was to determine the nature and rate of complications
during procedural sedation by pediatric hospitalists (PH) using ketamine and nitrous oxide …

As various diagnostic and treatment technologies evolve, the performance of diagnostic and
therapeutic procedures on pediatric patients outside operating rooms is rapidly becoming …

Background The administration of postintubation sedation (PIS) is an essential component
of postintubation care. Recent studies in the adult emergency medicine literature have …

Objective Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) in children has become a standard tool
in emergency settings, but no national PSA guidelines have been developed for the …