Procedural Pediatric Sedation by Nurses: Available, Competent, and Safe

Autor: Laetiscia Lavoie, Catherine Vezina, Emilie Paul-Savoie, Claude Cyr, Sylvie Lafrenaye
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: International Journal of Pediatrics, Vol 2012 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-9740
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DOI: 10.1155/2012/820209
Popis: Sedation and/or analgesia are standard of care for pediatric patients during painful intervention or medical imaging requiring immobility. Physician availability is frequently insufficient to allow for all procedural sedation. A nurse-led sedation program was created at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) to address this problem. Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness and the safety of our program. Methods. A retrospective study of all the procedural sedations done over one year was performed. Complications were separated in four categories: (1) major complications (call for help; unexpected admission, aspiration, and code); (2) reportable sedation events (oxygen saturation
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