What’s New in the Patient Safety World
May 2011
Update on Pediatric Procedural Sedation
An early release
paper in the journal Pediatrics (Couloures
2011) provides patient safety data from the Pediatric Sedation Research
Consortium, a group of 38 organizations that provide self-audited data via a
web-based data collection tool. They found an overall low rate of adverse
events related to pediatric procedural sedation and no significant differences
by nature of the specialty involved in the sedation. Rates of major
complications ranged from 7.6 to 12.4 per 10,000 sedations and there were no
deaths.
Though these rates
of major complications are relatively low, see our January 25, 2011 Patient
Safety Tip of the Week “Procedural
Sedation in Children” for a good discussion of the many potential
complications, best practices, and recommendations for safe procedural sedation
in children.
Reference:
Kevin G. Couloures
KG, Beach M, Cravero JP, et al. Impact of Provider Specialty on
Pediatric Procedural Sedation Complication Rates.
Pediatrics published online April 25, 2011
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2010-2960v1
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