Safe Procedural Sedation – checklists and databases.
February 10, 2017
Sedation is the ED is a routine procedure but there has not been clear routine training or procedure. The prompt card below is used every time and has led to an excellent safety record. To be used in conjunction with the Sedation logbook..
Back in 2012 the UK Royal College of Emergency Medicine and Royal College of Anaesthetists developed Safe Sedation in the Emergency Department – a report a recommendation. However, practise varies greatly often due to the varied training EM physicians have undergone. A review of practise at Brighton by Alice Byram can be seen below and the … More Are you sedating safely …. or is it still 10 and 10?