Main description:

This comprehensive guide provides tips and instruction for the entire range of specialists that utilize pediatric sedation. Each specialty receives tailored coverage that focuses on its unique patient population, challenges, potential solutions, and sedation techniques. Each chapter is written by a leading specialist in the field. A comprehensive spectrum of pediatric sedation will be covered, which will be of interest to oncologists, pediatricians, hospitalists, intensivists, radiologists, emergency medicine specialists, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, and gastroenterologists. Background chapters cover pharmacology as well as pediatric anatomy, with special focus on the airway and respiratory mechanics. The future of pediatric sedation is also reviewed as well as the cutting-edge research that is being done in the field.

Contents:

Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Pediatric Sedation outside the Operating Room 1. The History of Sedation 2. Procedural Sedation - Let's Review the Basics: The Pediatrician's Perspective 3. Sedation Policies, Recommendations and Guidelines Across the Specialties and Continents 4. Sedation Scales and Discharge Criteria: How Do They Differ? Which One to Choose? Do They Really Apply to Sedation? 5. Physiological Monitoring for Procedural Sedation: The Routine and Beyond 6. The Pediatric Airway: Anatomy, Challenges, and Solutions 7. Pediatric Physiology: How Does it Differ from Adults? 8. Pharmacology and Clinical Application of Sedatives, Analgesics and Adjuncts 9. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in the Pediatric Population 10. Billing and Reimbursement for Sedation Services Part II: Sedation Models Delivered by Different Specialties: A Global Voyage 11. The Pediatric Hospital Medicine Service: Models, Protocols, and Challenges 12. The Anesthesia Directed Sedation Service: Models, Protocols, and Challenges 13. Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit: Challenges, Outcomes and Future Strategies 14. Sedation for Pediatric Gastrointestinal Procedures 15. Sedation in the Emergency Department: A Complex and Multifactorial Challenge 16. Sedation of Pediatric Patients for Dental Procedures 17. Pediatric Sedation: The European Experience and Approach 18. Pediatric Sedation in the Underdeveloped Third World - An African Perspective: Models, Protocols, and Challenges Part III: Safety in Sedation 19. Pediatric Sedatives and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Challenges, Limitations, and Drugs in Development 20. Incidence and Stratification of Adverse Events Associated with Sedation: Is there a Benchmark? 21. Medicolegal Risks and Outcomes of Sedation 22. Designing a Safe Pediatric Sedation Service: Adopting a New Culture Part IV: Sedation into the 22nd Century 23. Intravenous Infusions for Sedation: Rationale, State of the Art and Future Trends 24. Usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pediatric Sedation 25. Future of Pediatric Sedation Index