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Procedural Sedation Delays and NPO Status for Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department

By Ken Milne, MD | on January 22, 2017 | 0 Comment
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Thank you to Dr. Robert Edmonds, an emergency medicine staff physician at Langley Air Force Base. (Note: The views and opinions of this article are not the official position of the United States Air Force or Langley Air Force Base.)

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ACEP Now: Vol 36 – No 01 – January 2017

Remember to be skeptical of anything you learn, even if you heard it on the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine.

Resources for Further Reading

  • Peri-procedural fasting. Life in the Fast Lane website. Accessed Dec. 19, 2016.
  • NPO for sedation. PEMBlog website. Accessed Dec. 19, 2016.
  • ACEP procedural sedation update for 2013. EMCrit website. Accessed Dec. 19, 2016.

References

  1. Practice guidelines for preoperative fasting and the use of pharmacologic agents to reduce the risk of pulmonary aspiration: application to healthy patients undergoing elective procedures: an updated report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Standards and Practice Parameters. Anesthesiology. 2011;114:495-511.
  2. Godwin SA, Burton JH, Gerardo CJ, et al. Clinical policy: procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department. Ann Emerg Med. 2014;63(2):247-58.e18.

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Topics: AnesthesiaED Critical CareEmergency DepartmentEmergency MedicineEmergency PhysicianNPO StatusPatient CarePediatricsPractice ManagementProcedures & SkillsSedation

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Ken Milne, MD

Ken Milne, MD, is chief of emergency medicine and chief of staff at South Huron Hospital, Ontario, Canada. He is on the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine faculty and is creator of the knowledge translation project the Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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