Procedural Pediatric Sedation by Nurses: Available, Competent, and Safe
In: International Journal of Pediatrics, Jg. 2012 (2012)
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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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Procedural Pediatric Sedation by Nurses: Available, Competent, and Safe
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Lavoie, Laetiscia ; Vezina, Catherine ; Paul-Savoie, Emilie ; Cyr, Claude ; Lafrenaye, Sylvie |
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Zeitschrift: | International Journal of Pediatrics, Jg. 2012 (2012) |
Veröffentlichung: | Hindawi Limited, 2012 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1687-9740 (print) ; 1687-9759 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1155/2012/820209 |
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