• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SPS Newsletter

An official publication of the Society for Pediatric Sedation

An official publication of the
Society for Pediatric Sedation®

    • President’s Message
      • Culture of Diversity in SPS
    • 2018 Annual Conference Reviews
      • Reviews of Monday Sessions
      • Reviews of Tuesday Sessions
      • Reviews of Wednesday Sessions
    • Literature Review
      • Neuropsychological and Behavioral Outcomes after Exposure of Young Children to Procedures Requiring General Anesthesia: The Mayo Anesthesia Safety in Kids (MASK) Study

Meeting Reviews

Aligning Pediatric Anesthesia and Procedural Sedation Service Lines
Reviewed by Amber Rogers, MD

Presented by Trish Scherrer, MD

In what appeared to be a channeling of Dr. Anne Stormorken, who was unfortunately unable to attend the SPS conference, Dr. Trish Scherrer seamlessly presented a discussion of the benefits of aligning sedation and anesthesia services.  Viewing the sedation/anesthesia processes from the perspective of the IOM Six Domains of Healthcare Quality, Trish discussed the key components of a quality integrated sedation/anesthesia system and some suggested metrics for tracking & quality improvement.  Some highlights include:

  • Safety: The importance of prescreening for adverse event prevention, optimally using a validated tool (in development).
  • Efficacy: Procedural sedation efficacy is judged by much more than just completion of the procedure; using a sedation state scale can help to guide care processes to minimize adverse psychological impacts and optimize the procedural environment.
  • Patient & Family-Centered: Patients and families are truly part of the care team, and the sedation/anesthesia system should assist in care coordination between the different services to provide appropriate patient preparation and family participation. The Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia or PAPS assessments can assist with evaluating these systems.
  • Timeliness: Unifying care between the sedation and anesthesia services can dramatically improve the timeliness of procedural sedation via appropriate patient triage systems and optimization of staffing between the services to avoid care delays.
  • Efficiency: Linking sedation and anesthesia services improves the system responsiveness to patient needs and helps to balance the demand and team availability at the right times. Efficiency can be measured by the equation: Team Efficiency = # sedation hours / FTE sedation team.
  • Equitable: All types of patients in all areas of the hospital system should have access to the same high-quality care, although evaluating for care disparities is often not straightforward. Contributing to patient outcome databases like the PSRC and PHIS can assist programs in this process.

The “Great Expectations—Defining Quality in Pediatric Sedation: Outcomes of a Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference” paper by several SPS leaders suggests sedation outcome measures for reference (J Healthc Qual. 2015 Mar-Apr;37(2):139-54).  Aligned sedation and anesthesia services can work towards optimizing quality care, as shown by these tracked outcome measures, via shared schedulers, administrative support, and care tracking systems.  This care coordination can facilitate appropriate scheduling and successful, quality completion of even complicated procedural sedation care needs.

Primary Sidebar

NEXT MEETING

View the program and register through the Mobile Meeting Guide.

CME MODULES

Check out the Society’s online educational modules for physicians and nurses.

 

Footer

About SPS News

SPS News is an official publication of the Society for Pediatric Sedation®

SPS News Editor
Carmen D. Sulton, MD

Contributing Authors
Nancy Crego, PhD, RN, CCRN
Benjamin F. Jackson, MD
Sue Kost, MD
Ali Ozcan, MD
Amber Rogers, MD
Anne Stormorken, MD

Share Your News!

Have an interesting story about your sedation team to share? Has your institution recently been recognized for something? We are looking for content for the next issue of SPS News, due out this summer.

Being a contributor is a great way to get involved in the Society. Contact Joye Stewart at the SPS headquarters office.

Get your SPS member app!

Take full advantage of your membership and download the SPS Member App for quick access to:

  • Renew your dues
  • Conference information
  • SPS News
  • Member section
  • And more!
It's available at your app store!

Copyright © 2022 Society for Pediatric Sedation