Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: Practices and Complications

Abstract

The current literature does not provide an adequate estimate of the type and frequency of adverse events associated with pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA). In a prospective observational study, researchers evaluated data from the first 30,000 cases submitted to the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium database, a prospective registry of patients receiving PSA at 35 institutions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. Data collection methods were standardized, and definitions were …