Abstract
The management of acute pain and anxiety in children undergoing therapeutic and diagnos- tic procedures outside the operating room has developed substantially in the past 15 years. The wide- spread availability of noninvasive monitoring, short- acting opioids and sedatives, and specific opioid and benzodiazepine antagonists has enabled clinicians to administer sedation safely for procedures in diverse settings. The goal of procedural sedation is the safe and effective control of pain, anxiety, and motion so as to allow a necessary procedure to be performed and to provide an appropriate degree of memory loss or decreased awareness. This article reviews the cur- rent status of sedation and analgesia for procedures in children.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 350 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 30 2000 |
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- General Medicine
Keywords
- Analgesia
- Analgesics/administration & dosage
- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures
- Hypnotics and Sedatives/administration & dosage
- Procedural Sedation
- Humans
- Pain/prevention & control
- Therapeutics
- Anxiety/drug therapy
- Child
Disciplines
- Surgery
- Anesthesiology
- Medicine and Health Sciences
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