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SPS Newsletter

An official publication of the Society for Pediatric Sedation

An official publication of the
Society for Pediatric Sedation®

    • Leadership Messages
      • Quality Care to Patients and Quality Service to Our Members
        By Sue Kost, MD
    • Committee Updates
      • SPS Quality and Safety Committee Update
      • SPS Scholarly Grant Supports High Quality Projects
    • Cautionary Tales
      • How Low Can You Go?
        Steroid-Induced Bradycardia in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
    • Literature Reviews
      • Improving Efficiency and Communication Around Sedated Fracture Reductions in a Pediatric Emergency Department
    • General Articles
      • Utilizing Databases in Sedation Quality Improvement
      • Parental Presence During Sedated Tests or Procedures
      • Pilot Study of a Primary and Secondary Prescreening Process for Sedated MRI Patients at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
      • Interview with a Sedation Center of Excellence
        UHHospitals Rainbow Babies’ and Children’s Hospital

President’s Message

Quality Care to Patients and Quality Service to Our Members
By Sue Kost, MD

Once again, Fall brings a focus on quality to the SPS News.  We hope that you find this issue interesting and useful as you strive to improve the provision of pediatric sedation at your own facility.

Just as your clinical teams work to improve care to patients, our Society also works to improve the quality of service that we provide to our members. I’d like to take this opportunity to update you on quality improvement efforts within the SPS. As you know, the Society is governed by a Board of Directors. What you may not know is that the Board is guided by a strategic plan. Our last strategic plan was created following a moderated retreat involving over two dozen of our leaders in August 2015. We have been successfully guided by the plan devised at that retreat for the past four years.

The Executive Committee of our current board met for a day-long session on July 13th, 2019 to review and update that plan, with the goal of establishing a renewed strategic plan beginning in 2020. As I write this message, the Board is in the midst of a series of three meetings focusing on that updated plan. We hope to have a final approved version by November, to guide us in planning our 2020 budget beginning in January.

The details of the new plan are beyond the scope of this message, but we hope to build on our success by strengthening ties between our Education and Membership committees, in part to better disseminate our newly revised SPS Sedation Provider Course. In addition, as Dr. Landers mentions in her Quality and Safety Committee update, we are hoping to bolster the connection between our Quality and Research Committees, with the goal of using data to better define and compare realms of quality beyond safety, such as the efficiency and effectiveness of the sedation care we deliver.

Finally, I’ll close by thanking our former editor, Trish Scherrer, for years of faithful service to the SPS News. Trish has retired from this position, and Nicole Johnson, a pediatric intensivist (and sedation physician!) at Rainbow Babies and Children, has filled in for this issue. Going forward, Carmen Sulton, a pediatric emergency medicine physician (and sedation physician!) will take over as editor. Thank you, Nicole and Carmen! I look forward to on-going informative issues, with lots of input from our membership. Let us know if you have something to contribute!

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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

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