Pediatrics

Sedation Safer In Hospital Setting

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 16th, 2000

A recent study found that when children undergo procedures requiring sedation they are more likely to have adverse outcomes when treated in a non-hospital-based setting.

To determine the relationship between sedation and adverse outcomes in children, C.J. Cote and colleagues at Northwestern University's Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, conducted a study using data on adverse sedation events obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's adverse drug event reporting system, the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, and from a pediatric specialist survey. The results of their study were published in a recent issue of Pediatrics ("Adverse sedation events in...

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