Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room (eBook)

Keira P. Mason, MD, is the director of radiology anesthesia at Children's Hospital Boston and the director of the annual conference "Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room" sponsored by Harvard Medical School.  

Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Pediatric Sedation outside the Operating Room 1.      The History of Sedation2.       Procedural Sedation – Let's Review the Basics: The Pediatrician’s Perspective3.       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 Beyond6.       The Pediatric Airway: Anatomy, Challenges, and Solutions7.       Pediatric Physiology:  How Does it Differ from Adults?8.       Pharmacology and Clinical Application of Sedatives, Analgesics and Adjuncts9. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in the Pediatric Population10.   Billing and Reimbursement for Sedation ServicesPart II: Sedation Models Delivered by Different Specialties: A Global Voyage11.  The Pediatric Hospital Medicine Service: Models, Protocols, and Challenges12.   The Anesthesia Directed Sedation Service: Models, Protocols, and Challenges 13.   Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit: Challenges, Outcomes and Future Strategies14.   Sedation for Pediatric Gastrointestinal Procedures15.   Sedation in the Emergency Department: A Complex and Multifactorial Challenge16.  Sedation of Pediatric Patients for Dental Procedures17.    Pediatric Sedation: The European Experience and Approach18.   Pediatric Sedation in the Underdeveloped Third World – An African Perspective: Models, Protocols, and ChallengesPart III: Safety in Sedation19.  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 Sedation22.  Designing a Safe Pediatric Sedation Service: Adopting a New CulturePart IV: Sedation into the 22nd Century23.  Intravenous Infusions for Sedation: Rationale, State of the Art and Future Trends24.   Usage of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pediatric Sedation25.   Future of Pediatric SedationIndex