SPS Newsletter

An official publication of the Society for Pediatric Sedation

An official publication of the
Society for Pediatric Sedation®

Volume 6 – Number 4 – Fall 2017

Sedation for Children Undergoing Multiple Procedures
By Sue Kost, MD

This episode of Cautionary Tales will focus on a couple of lessons I’ve learned from experience when providing sedation for children undergoing multiple procedures during the same sedation event. To many of you, this information may seem like common sense, but some, like me, may have learned the hard way. Let’s hope that these tips prevent at least … [Read More...]

Quality & Safety

Building a Sedation Quality Dashboard
By Cheri Landers, MD

With the Center of Excellence Award Designation on the horizon I thought I would resurrect an abstract from the Annual SPS Conference in 2012 that described how our Pediatric Sedation Service built a Sedation Dashboard and follow with some comments about how the dashboard has changed and lessons we … [Read More...]

Membership & Communications

SPS Membership and Communications Committee Update
By Sue Kost, MD, Chair

The recent focus of the Membership and Communication Committee has been on publicizing and clarifying the SPS member benefits, both for individual members and for institutional members. In particular, we hope to improve communication with our Platinum-level institutional members. A task force within our committee is soliciting content for a new, … [Read More...]

Research

SPS Research Committee Update
By Dan Tsze, MD, MPH

Dental Sedation The committee continues to work with the SPS leadership and representatives from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to develop data gathering and analysis capability specific to dental sedation.  This will be the first of many such efforts to gain involvement from dentists in the PSRC. With the leadership of AAPD … [Read More...]

Literature Reviews

Pediatric Procedural Sedation Using the Combination of Ketamine and Propofol Outside of the Emergency Department
Reviewed by Carmen D. Sulton, MD; Laurie Burton, MD; Pradip Kamat, MD, MBA, FCCM; Jason Reynolds, MD; and Patricia Scherrer, MD

Grunwell JR, Travers C, Stormorken AG, Scherrer PD, Chumpitazi CE, Stockwell JA, Roback MG, Cravero J, Kamat PP. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, August 2017, vol 18, no 8, pp 356-363. The combination of propofol and ketamine has emerged as a popular sedation choice in the emergency setting.  Ketamine, especially, is used widely in both adult … [Read More...]

Optimal Volume of Administration of Intranasal Midazolam in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Reviewed by Carmen D. Sulton, MD; Laurie Burton, MD; Pradip Kamat, MD, MBA, FCCM; Jason Reynolds, MD; and Patricia Scherrer, MD

Tsze, DS, leni, M, Fenster, D.  Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 69, no. 5, 2017, pp. 600–609. Intranasal medications have become both a popular and efficient method of delivering anxiolytic and pain medications.  Notably for pediatric patients, intranasal medications often eliminate the need for distressing peripheral IV starts.  Addi … [Read More...]

Association of BMI With Propofol Dosing and Adverse Events in Children With Cancer Undergoing Procedural Sedation
Reviewed by Lorie Reilly, MSN, CRNP, CPNP-AC
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Rogerson C, Abulebda K, Hobson M Hospital Pediatrics. 2017 Sept 7(9): 542-546. Abstract Objectives: This study examined the effect of BMI, from underweight to obesity, on dosing of propofol and adverse events for children with cancer who were deeply sedated for painful procedures. Methods Retrospectively they studied pediatric oncology … [Read More...]