SPS Plenary Session | May 20, 2019, 1:30 pm | Pradip Kamat, MD
The Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium (PSRC) has collected data on over 450,000 sedations from 2007-2018. Dr. Pradip Kamat’s presentation, “Trends in PSRC Sedation”, was an informative and, dare I say, entertaining (who will ever forget the immortal line, “any gorilla can push propofol”?) review of information … [Read more...] about Trends in PSRC Sedation
Summer 2019
Trends in PSRC Sedation
“What Happens When the Lights Go Out?” Addressing After Hours SedationReviewed by Anne Stormorken, MD
SPS Plenary Session | May 20, 2019, 12:15 pm
Moderator – Deb Faulk, MD | Presenters – Troy Sands, MD; Carmen Sulton, MD
The holy grail of any service line is providing the same level of care and customer service 24/7/365, and this is particularly true when caring for children. A panel of sedation experts provided insight into how various institutions have tried to confront thi … [Read more...] about “What Happens When the Lights Go Out?” Addressing After Hours Sedation
Pediatric Sedation State ScaleReviewed by Jason Reynolds, MD
SPS Plenary Session | May 22, 2019, 8:00 am | Joseph P. Cravero, MD
Dr. Cravero opened with a reference to an obscure baseball team that apparently wears red socks. He then went on to hit a home run by walking us through the evolution of the Pediatric Sedation State Score (PSSS). The story really begins with the Dartmouth Summit of Pediatric Sedation that led to the p … [Read more...] about Pediatric Sedation State Scale
2019 SPS Conference Reviews
Plenary Sessions Monday, May 20 Unscheduled Compassion: Procedural Sedation & Pre-procedural Fasting Ensuring Quality in Procedural Sedation Across the Institution A Tale of Three Cities: Variation in Sedation Service Lines Evolution of Sedation Nursing and Impact on Care Standards Parent Presentation: One Child’s Journey: A Parent’s Perspective on Sed … [Read more...] about 2019 SPS Conference Reviews
Unscheduled Compassion: Procedural Sedation & Pre-procedural FastingReviewed by David Banks, MD, FAAP
SPS Plenary Session | May 20, 2019, 4:15 pm
Benjamin F. Jackson, MD, FAAP, FACEP; and Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Dr. Jackson introduced the American College of Emergency Physicians’ new guideline: “Multidisciplinary Consensus Practice Guideline for Unscheduled Procedural Sedation”
“We look to guidelines to point us in a direction of safety, to help identify risk, and risk … [Read more...] about Unscheduled Compassion: Procedural Sedation & Pre-procedural Fasting