SPS Newsletter

An official publication of the Society for Pediatric Sedation

An official publication of the
Society for Pediatric Sedation®

Education

#SPS20 Conference Speaker Highlights
By Mary Landrigan-Ossar, MD
Program Chair

The Society for Pediatric Sedation’s 2020 Annual Meeting will be held May 18-20 in Baltimore, MD. The Education Committee and Meeting Planning Subcommittee are excited for the program we’ve assembled, and would like to take a moment to highlight a few of these amazing speakers. Dr. Sapna Kudchadkar, a critical care physician in the PICU at Johns Hopkins Hospital, will be off … [Read more...] about #SPS20 Conference Speaker Highlights

SPS Sedation Provider CourseTM – A Step Towards World Domination
By Anna Lin, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Clinical Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Stanford University
Assistant Medical Director, Office of Emergency Management, Stanford Children's Health and Stanford Health Care

The Society for Pediatric Sedation Provider CourseTM continues to further our mission of promoting safe and effective pediatric sedation. Last year, Anne Stormorken, MD, Anna Lin, MD, Jaimee Holbrook, MD, Nicole Johnson, MD, and Trish Scherrer, MD, worked together to create five interactive online modules.   These case-based modules highlight the fundamentals of procedural s … [Read more...] about SPS Sedation Provider CourseTM – A Step Towards World Domination

Annual Conference Presentations with Nurses in Mind
By Lorie Reilly MSN, CRNP, CPNP-AC
Chairperson, Nursing and Allied Health Committee

This year’s conference promises to be jam packed with content for all disciplines. Nurses are represented in the podium and in breakout sessions: ProCon Lightning Round: Stump the Experts Violent Behavior in the Workplace The Role of Nursing in Sedation Research Service Recovery: Beyond Saying Sorry Nitrous Oxide Workshop Discussions on the Dock PBLD: D … [Read more...] about Annual Conference Presentations with Nurses in Mind

How an SPS Platinum Member Uses the SPS Sedation Provider CourseTM Online Learning Package to Train Providers

Anne Stormorken, MD, Education Chair and President-Elect, interviews Vanessa Olbrecht, MD, MBA, Associate Professor, Associate Director of Research for the Department of Anesthesia, and Director of Quality Improvement and Accreditation at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. AS: Will you please describe your program? Our sedation program at Cincinnati C … [Read more...] about How an SPS Platinum Member Uses the SPS Sedation Provider CourseTM Online Learning Package to Train Providers

My Experience with the SPS Sedation Provider CourseTM at #SPS19
By Koen Vanhonsebrouck, RN, CCRN
Sedation Nurse, Leuven, Belgium

The sedation program at the University Hospital Leuven, in Belgium, has recently been upgraded in a sense that we now focus even more on the anxiety and fear of the child during procedure. With that in mind, I had the opportunity the attend the conference of the Society of Pediatric Sedation in Denver in 2019. I attended the sedation provider course that preceded the … [Read more...] about My Experience with the SPS Sedation Provider CourseTM at #SPS19